{"product_id":"behind-the-mask-of-chivalry-the-making-of-the-second-ku-klux-klan-paperback","title":"Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy K. MacLean\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night sky above, William Joseph\u003cbr\u003eSimmons and his disciples proclaimed themselves the new Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, named for the infamous secret order in which many of their fathers had served after the Civil War. Unsure of their footing in the New South and longing for the provincial, patriarchal world of the past, the men of\u003cbr\u003ethe second Klan saw themselves as an army in training for a war between the races. They boasted that they had bonded into \"an invisible phalanx...to stand as impregnable as a tower against every encroachment upon the white man's liberty...in the white man's country, under the white man's flag.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eBehind the Mask of Chivalry\u003c\/em\u003e brings the \"invisible phalanx\" into broad daylight, culling from history the names, the life stories, and the driving passions of the anonymous Klansmen beneath the white hoods and robes. Using an unusual and rich cache of internal Klan records from Athens, Georgia, to\u003cbr\u003eanchor her observations, author Nancy MacLean combines a fine-grained portrait of a local Klan world with a penetrating analysis of the second Klan's ideas and politics nationwide. No other right-wing movement has ever achieved as much power as the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, and this book shows how\u003cbr\u003eand why it did. MacLean reveals that the movement mobilized its millions of American followers largely through campaigns waged over issues that today would be called \"family values\" Prohibition violation, premarital sex, lewd movies, anxieties about women's changing roles, and worries over waning\u003cbr\u003eparental authority. Neither elites nor \"poor white trash,\" most of the Klan rank and file were married, middle-aged, and middle class. Local meetings, or klonklaves, featured readings of the minutes, plans for recruitment campaigns and Klan barbecues, and distribution of educational\u003cbr\u003ematerials--\u003cem\u003eChrist and Other Klansmen\u003c\/em\u003e was one popular tome. Nonetheless, as mundane as proceedings often were at the local level, crusades over \"morals\" always operated in the service of the Klan's larger agenda of virulent racial hatred and middle-class revanchism. The men who deplored sex among\u003cbr\u003eyoung people and sought to restore the power of husbands and fathers were also sworn to reclaim the \"white man's country,\" striving to take the vote from blacks and bar immigrants. Comparing the Klan to the European fascist movements that grew out of the crucible of the first World War, MacLean\u003cbr\u003emaintains that the remarkable scope and frenzy of the movement reflected less on members' power within their communities than on the challenges to that power posed by African Americans, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, and white women and youth who did not obey the Klan's canon of appropriate conduct.\u003cbr\u003eIn vigilante terror, the Klan's night riders acted out their movement's brutal determination to maintain inherited hierarchies of race, class, and gender.\u003cbr\u003e Compellingly readable and impeccably researched, \u003cem\u003eThe Mask of Chivalry\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable investigation of a crucial era in American history, and the social conditions, cultural currents, and ordinary men that built this archetypal American reactionary movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eExposes the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, culling from history the life stories and motives of the anonymous Klansmen beneath the white hoods and robes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNancy K. MacLean\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.47 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 1995\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753920135456,"sku":"9780195098365","price":44.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/758d8515c75d44a77add94181af910f2.webp?v=1780029576","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/behind-the-mask-of-chivalry-the-making-of-the-second-ku-klux-klan-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}