Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
by Bordewich, Fergus M
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- ISBN 10
- 0593317815
- ISBN 13
- 9780593317815
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SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION STATED. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed, dated and located by the author directly to the full title page (October 24, 2023 Oxford, MS). NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government to dismantle the KKK The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as the first organized terrorist movement in American history, rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members, no small number of them landowners, lawmen, doctors, journalists, and churchmen, as well as future governors and congressmen. And their mission was to obliterate the muscular democratic power of newly emancipated Black Americans and their white allies, often by the most horrifying means imaginable. To repel the virulent tidal wave of violence, President Ulysses S. Grant waged a two-term battle against both armed Southern enemies of Reconstruction and Northern politicians seduced by visions of postwar conciliation, testing the limits of the federal government in determining the extent of states rights. In this book, Bordewich transports us to the front lines, in the hamlets of the former Confederate States and in the marble corridors of Congress, reviving an unsung generation of grassroots Black leaders and key figures such as crusading Missouri senator Carl Schurz, who sacrificed the rights of Black Americans in the name of political reform, and the ruthless former slave trader and Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest. Klan War is a bold and bracing record of America s past that reveals the bloody, Reconstruction-era roots of present-day battles to protect the ballot box and stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies.
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- 1092
- Title
- Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED TO TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
- Author
- Bordewich, Fergus M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Hardcover Signed
- ISBN 10
- 0593317815
- ISBN 13
- 9780593317815
- Publisher
- Knopf Publishing Group
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- signed; collectible; autographed, history, US History, KKK, Civil War, Lincoln
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