The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

by Linda Gordon

Book Overview

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon's disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this "second Klan" spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631493698
• ISBN13: 9781631493690
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"