McGill Reads - "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan
About McGill Reads: If you miss the insightful
discussions of the classroom or just love to read, this is your
chance to discover thought-provoking books and meet new people
while learning from some of McGill’s favourite professors without
tests, papers, or evaluations!
There is a registration fee of $15 per person for the semester
which covers refreshments, room rentals, and other book club
expenses. Book club members benefit from a 10% discount on all book
club books at the University Bookstore.
About the Lecturer: Leonard Moore has taught American history at McGill since 1991. His courses cover a wide range of topics including the Civil War and Reconstruction, citizenship and civil rights in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, social and political history from the 1920s to the present. His research interests have focused on the social foundations of the American right in the twentieth century. He is the author of Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1927, which won the Outstanding Book Award by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.
About the Book: Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).