For the Kingdom and the Power: The Big Money Swindle That Spread Hate Across America

from Anome

This is quite an interesting account of the KKK through the early part of the 20th Century, particularly the rise in the 10s and 20s and the newspaper battles to expose the organisation. What I did find lacking, however, was a direct link to the canny marketing ploys hinted at. The techniques of...

from Matthew1982

I will start with what this book is: It covers three senior leaders of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 20th century. There are very few accounts of racist violence or thuggery, as it focuses more on essentially white-collar crime by two of those senior leaders. It mainly covers administration and b...

from viennamax

A book that relates the propagation of the Ku Kux Klan to the public relations genius of a greedy couple. The assertion here is 1) that the fraternal organization could not prey upon the prevailing mood of the time without the power of the media and 2) that the "managers" of the Klan were conduct...

from Virasana123

I received this book for free through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program in exchange for an honest review. At first, I was reluctant to request and read a book about the Klu Klux Klan because I was afraid of the emotions that it would ignite. However, the book emphasized less of the Klan's ...

from Librarian42

Wow!! Just finished this! It was so interesting to read, with other historical facts sprinkled in, very interesting how much hate there was and just because two greedy people were greedy! Absolutely fascinating.