Timothy Egan crafts compelling narratives that delve into profound historical journeys and personal quests. His writing skillfully explores the intricate connections between people, landscapes, and the spiritual, rendering his subjects and settings with keen insight. Egan's distinctive approach marries extensive historical research with engaging personal storytelling, offering readers a unique perspective on the past and present. His work stands as a remarkable fusion of reportage, history, and introspection.
National Book Award-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.
Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and "virtuosic" (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of Christianity Moved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in the footsteps of centuries of seekers to force a reckoning with his own beliefs. He embarked on a thousand-mile pilgrimage through the theological cradle of Christianity, exploring one of the biggest stories of our time: the collapse of religion in the world that it created. Egan sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and makes his way overland via the alpine peaks and small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy. Making his way through a landscape laced with some of the most important shrines to the faith, Egan finds a modern Canterbury Tale in the chapel where Queen Bertha introduced Christianity to pagan Britain; parses the supernatural in a French town built on miracles; and journeys to the oldest abbey in the Western world, founded in 515 and home to continuous prayer over the 1,500 years that have followed. A thrilling journey, a family story, and a revealing history, A Pilgrimage to Eternity looks for our future in its search for God.
"The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan recounts the harrowing experiences of families during the Dust Bowl, showcasing their resilience amidst environmental and economic devastation. Through vivid storytelling and historical insight, Egan captures the grit and courage of those who endured the Great Depression, making it a significant work of American history.
"The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson. Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he'd become the Grand Dragon of the state and and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows - their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman - Madge Oberholtzer - who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees."-- Provided by publisher
Pierwsi przybysze na Wielkie Równiny zobaczyli morze traw ciągnące się po horyzont. Żadnych drzew, wzniesień terenu, przecinającej prerię rzeki. Hodowcy bydła zastali tu wymarzone pastwiska dla swoich stad. Rdzenni mieszkańcy musieli ustąpić miejsca kowbojom. Potem przybyli farmerzy i zaczęła się wielka orka. Miliony akrów ogołocono z traw, by wysiać pszenicę. Na początku XX wieku wydawało się, że ziemia rodzi złoto. Jednak hossa nie trwała wiecznie. Najpierw przyszedł Wielki Kryzys, a z nim bankructwa banków i gwałtowny spadek cen pszenicy. Później rozpętało się piekło. Przez kolejne lata zamiast deszczu na domy i pola osadników spadały tony błota i piasku, który wciskał się w każdą szczelinę, niszczył uprawy, dostawał się do płuc. Wiatr wzbijał tumany pyłu z ziemi pozbawionej ochrony traw. Szalejące w latach trzydziestych XX wieku burze piaskowe uznano za jeden z najpoważniejszych kataklizmów pogodowych, była to też najstraszliwsza w skutkach katastrofa naturalna w dziejach Ameryki, spowodowana bezmyślną działalnością człowieka. Timothy Egan śledzi losy kilkunastu osób, ich rodzin i sąsiadów, ich zmagania, sukcesy, a potem desperacką walkę o przetrwanie. To opowieść o niezwykłej sile charakteru i wytrwałości w obliczu katastrofy – ale też ostrzeżenie, że zwracając się przeciwko naturze, w końcu zawsze się przegrywa.