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Threat to Democracy: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s: A Warning from History

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By (author): Linda Gordon

Boasting four to six million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically challenged 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 grew to include elaborate secret rituals and mass Klonvocations before collapsing amid revelations of sordid sexual scandals, financial embezzlement, and Ponzi-like schemes. The Klans effective 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, helping to explain the dangerous appeal of todays welter of intolerance and explaining its ancestry. See more
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  • Weight: 549g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2017
  • Publisher: Amberley Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781445674766

About Linda Gordon

Linda Gordon is the winner of two Bancroft Prizes and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (WW Norton 2015) and the co-author of Feminism Unfinished: A Short Surprising History of American Women's Movements (WW Norton 2012). She teaches at New York University.

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