The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781631493690)

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 flood of immigrant "hordes" landing on American shores. "Part cautionary tale, part expose" (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK "illuminates the surprising scope of the movement" (The New Yorker); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass "Klonvocations" prior to its collapse in 1926?but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A "must-read" (Salon) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers "chilling comparisons to the present day" (New York Review of Books). 8 pages of illustrations

Author: Linda Gordon
ISBN-10: 1631493698
ISBN-13: 9781631493690
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2017
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2017 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 08/28/2017
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 16
Library Journal 10/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 12/08/2017
Choice 05/01/2018