Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

by Fergus M. Bordewich

Book Overview

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil--when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK

The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593317815
• ISBN13: 9780593317815
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"