Essay Archive - Summary of Terkel's My American Century
Summary of Terkel's My American Century
After I began reading the book My American Century by Studs Terkel,
I quickly became interested in reading further. At first, I thought it
would be a long boring book to have to read, but I soon was very anxious to
continue my reading. The reading that I personally enjoyed the most was
the one of C.P. Ellis, the former Ku Klux Klan member.
This reading comes from a man who is fifty-three years old and was
at one time the “exalted cyclops”, or president of the Durham chapter of
the KKK in North Carolina. His story tells of his early years....
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