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03859aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 2044D472794511EEAB8C8A0C42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231102010025 008 231004s2023 nyua e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022058874 020 $a 0593317815 020 $a 9780593317815 035 $a (OCoLC)1401760330 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c CZA $d CZA $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Bordewich, Fergus M., $e author. 245 10 $a Klan war : $b Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction / $c Fergus M. Bordewich. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2023. 300 $a xix, 447 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-418) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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 in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. 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 northerners seduced by visions of post-war conciliation, testing for the first time 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 and the ruthless former slave trader Nathan Bedford Forrest. Klan War is a bold and bracing record of American's past that reveals the bloody, Reconstruction-era roots of present-day battles to protect the ballot box and to stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 941 $a 16 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025024.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20240523010804.0 952 $l OJPC027 $d 20240425145542.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20240416010634.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409045102.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320011020.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314030002.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240201010253.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125011309.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20240111060055.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240106010127.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20231108010507.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231107011110.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20231103010247.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20231102012604.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20231102010526.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2044D472794511EEAB8C8A0C42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search