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 the eighth grade. It also tells of many of his father's struggles just to get by, and early demise. The thing about this reading that fascinated me the most isn't what led this man to the Klan, or what he did with them. The thing that....

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