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THREAT TO DEMOCRACY
THE RISE OF THE KU KLUX KLAN IN THE 1920S: A WARNING FROM HISTORY |
| By: |
Linda Gordon |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1445674769 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781445674766 |
| Publisher: |
AMBERLEY PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
15 October, 2017 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
By legitimising bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands re-examination today with a more strident, populist and nationalist America. |
| Synopsis: |
Boasting 4 to 6 million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically challenged our preconceptions of hooded Klansmen, who through violence and lynching had established a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South. Responding to the `emergency' posed by the flood of immigrants - Irish and Italians, `self-centred Hebrews', and `sly Orientals' - this `second Klan', as award-winning historian Linda Gordon vividly chronicles, spread across America. Condemning liberal, `urban' vices like liquor, prostitution, movies and jazz as Catholic and Jewish `plots' to subvert American values, the rejuvenated Klan became entirely mainstream, attracting middle-class men and women. It gre to include elaborate secret rituals and mass `Klonvocations' before collapsing amid revelations of sordid sexual scandals, financial embezzlement, and Ponzi-like schemes.The Klan's brilliant melding of Christian values with racial bigotry and its lightning-like accretion of political power now becomes a sobering parable for the twenty-first century. |
| Illustrations: |
15 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Amberley Publishing |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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