@article{866626,
      author = {Gordon, Linda,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/866626},
      title = {The second coming of the KKK : the Ku Klux Klan of the  1920s and the American political tradition /},
      abstract = {"A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less  violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively  small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most  Americans today, this "second Klan" largely flourished  above the Mason-Dixon Line--its army of four-to-six-million  members spanning the continent from New Jersey to Oregon,  its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of  mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth  century ... Never secret, this Klan recruited openly,  through newspaper ads, in churches, and through extravagant  mass "Americanism" pageants, often held on Independence  Day. These "Klonvocations" drew tens of thousands and  featured fireworks, airplane stunts, children's games, and  women's bake-offs--and, of course, cross-burnings. The Klan  even controlled about one hundred and fifty newspapers, as  well as the Cavalier Motion Picture Company, dedicated to  countering Hollywood's "immoral"--And Jewish--influence.  The Klan became a major political force, electing thousands  to state offices and over one hundred to national offices  ..."--Jacket.},
      recid = {866626},
      pages = {xiv, 272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
}