Bibliograph

Klan war, Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction, Fergus M. Bordewich

Type

Label

Klan war, Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction, Fergus M. Bordewich

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Klan war

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1355647700

Responsibility statement

Fergus M. Bordewich

Sub title

Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction

Summary

In this bold and bracing record of America<U+2019>s past, a celebrated historian transports us to the front lines of President Grant<U+2019>s war on the Ku Klux Klan, reviving an unsung generation of grassroots Black leaders and key figures, while discussing the present-day battles to stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies

Table Of Contents

Part one. The terror : An experiment in good faith ; Apparitions in tennessee ; A monster terrible beyond question ; An alarm bell in the night ; Field of blood -- Part two. Grant takes command : The Sphinx ; The face of revolution ; A mephistopheles in glasses ; The first enforcement act -- Part three. War : South Carolina in the balance ; Ben Butler's apotheosis ; An officer of immence energy and zeal ; A machinery for crimes ; Congress goes south ; The Klan at bay -- Part four. Recessional : The court weighs in ; Grant triumphant ; Colfax ; Epilogue

Target audience

adult

Classification