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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 and schooling,
which only lasted until ....
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