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From Publishers Weekly
This doggedly researched history of the American racist group is bloated with cliches, overstatements, colloquialisms, sensationalistic accounts of sexual atrocities and nonsensical connections (a detailed description of Grant's second inaugural ball that took place in an unheated building is followed by the observation that "over the next four years, the Republican ardor for civil rights would cool"). Wade's historical insights are often inane, as when he discusses Grant's suspension of habeas corpus in implementing the Ku-Klux Act: "Although it must be admitted that martial law is never pleasant, the effects of military occupation in South Carolina were far less dreadful than the picture anti-Reconstruction historians would popularize." And his psychological analyses are ludicrous: "Klan attacks on scalawags often involved some kind of sexual abuse. . . . as if the behavior of the scalawags represented a form of infidelity to the South, and Klansmen gladly assumed the role of vengeful spouses." Wade is the author of The Titanic: End of a Dream. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Library Journal
Wade's journalistic approach brings alive the hydra-headed Klan: from its 19th-century Southern origins; to its 20th-century celebration in film; to its 1915-20s national emergence as a small-town, rural mix of narrow-mindedness, prejudice, and violence against blacks, Catholics, and Jews; to its increasingly anti-Communist poses since the New Deal; to its most recent incarnation in such varied and conflicting types as the "intellectual" David Duke and the paramilitary Bill Wilkinson. Although more descriptive than analytical, Wade's book shows how the Klan has assumed various guises over time, and how recent groups have lapsed back into the anarchy that prevailed in the KKK's infancy. Wade discovers the Klan as a singularly American beast, created by the very democratic ideals it mocks and inverts. Recommended for public and university libraries.Randall M. Miller, History Dept., St. Joseph's Univ., Philadelphia
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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