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Honors Book Discussion with Dr. Daniel Rood
April 1 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
REGISTRATION REQUIRED – All book discussion sign-ups announced at the beginning of the semester on the Honors listserv
- Book: THE STORM IS HERE: AN AMERICAN CRUCIBLE by Luke Mogelson
- Discussion Leader: Dr. Daniel Rood, Associate Professor of History
- Date: Monday, April 1, 6:00-8:00pm
- Location: Moore Hall 116
- Description: After years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across the US. An assignment that began with right-wing militias in Michigan soon took him to an uprising for racial justice in Minneapolis, then to antifascist clashes in the streets of Portland, and ultimately to an attempted insurrection in Washington, D.C. This is the definitive eyewitness account of how—during a season of sickness, economic uncertainty, and violence—a large segment of Americans became convinced of the need to battle against dark forces plotting to take their country away from them. It builds month by month, through vivid depictions of events on the ground, from the onset of COVID-19 to the attack on the US Capitol—during which Mogelson followed the mob into the Senate chamber—and its aftermath.
Contact: Kora Burton, k.burton@uga.edu.
