A review by aman757
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition by Linda Gordon

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

3.5

I found this book to be informative about the operations of the KKK in the specific age of the 1920s and around the beginning of the 20th century. I was interested to learn about some of the religious associations the KKK opposed, in addition to their discrimination in regard to race. But also there was supposedly some association with certain Christian denominations and historic populist movements. Also supposedly there was discrimination against Catholics and Jews to an extent but not as much as the emphasis the group put on white supremacy, especially with regard to the subversive, hidden nature of the group, as clearly apparent in the hidden, masked costumes. There was some reference to modern revivals of the KKK group, but the emphasis was the particular age in the 1920s with an association with certain Protestant religious beliefs, and also a biased opposition to newly popularized cultural expression like jazz of the decade.