Lecture to focus on life of Paul Crouch

Gregory Taylor, associate professor of history at Chowan University in Murfreesboro, will present “Cold War Pawn: One Man’s Ideological Journey through a Divided World, at 5 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery, Joyner Library.

Taylor will focus on the life of North Carolina native Paul Crouch, a former member of the Communist Party of the USA who eventually quit the party and testified widely about the dangers of communism.  The presentation will also examine how Crouch and others like him often find themselves used, abused and discarded by more sophisticated operators, like Joseph Stalin or Joe McCarthy.

Taylor is author of “The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch: Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch” and “The History of the North Carolina Communist Party.”

For more information, contact David Durant at durantd@ecu.edu or 252.737.2258.