Results for "Egan, Timothy"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year •  A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist"With narrat... Read More about A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

This National Book Award–winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history—the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression—from the shadows.Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and f... Read More about The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: A National Book Award Winner

In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis ... Read More about The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

A New York Times Bestseller. A Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly, and Amazon Best Book of the Year.A dramatic account of the worst forest fire in American history by the author of the National Book Award–winning The Worst Hard Time.On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a ba... Read More about The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

Tracing an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and "virtuosic" (The Wall Street Journal) writer explores the past and future of ChristianityMoved by his mother's death and his Irish Catholic family's complicated history with the church, Timothy Egan decided to follow in... Read More about A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

A New York Times Notable Book A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionNew York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Im... Read More about Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis