![]() “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. ![]() 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. ![]() A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionĪn urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time ( New York Times Book Review).Įxtraordinary 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. ![]()
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