![]() ![]() ![]() To have a Klansman in the family tree is no rare thing: Demographic estimates suggest that fifty percent of whites in the United States have at least one ancestor who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan at some point in its history. Ball, a descendant of this Klansman, paints a portrait of his family's antiblack militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail. This time, he tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. ![]() In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball returns to the subject of his classic first book, Slaves in the Family: The Mechanisms of White Supremacy in America, as understood through the lives of his ancestors. The National Book Award–winning author contends with two intertwined histories of white supremacy, one in his family, the other in our country. ![]()
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