Timothy Egan
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Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a New York Times columnist, a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in nonfiction, and the author of seven books, including Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, The Worst Hard Time, which won a National Book Award, and the national visa mer bestseller The Big Burn. visa färre
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (Nonfiction Books – 2023)
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero (Nonfiction Books – 2016)
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This used inscribed paperback copy was just mixed in with regular stock, so I picked it over a signed first edition hardcover that was $50.
These essays feel a little... dated, but they mostly hold up well in their environs. I remember cringing at 'rangerette', and a 30 something backpacker dude describing his backcountry steak and bourbon dinner.
That said, Egan hits all the Washington high notes. Three decades on, we are still struggling with the salmon, but there is talk of actual dam removal along the Columbia, along with the recently freed Elwha. At work, Howard Hanson dam is getting a fish passage that will restore chinook to the Upper Green.
Having seen most of the same routes, I would be happy just sticking it out at La Push, where he closes.… (mer)