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A Conversation with Historian Fergus Bordewich
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Join Park Historian Nick Sacco and author Fergus Bordewich for a conversation about President Ulysses S. Grant's fight against the Ku Klux Klan and Mr. Bordewich's new book, Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction.
This event will take place at the Daniel Boone Branch of the St. Louis County Library at 300 Clarkson Rd., Ellisville, MO 63011. Doors open at 6:00PM, program starts at 7:00PM.
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"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. 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 Northern politicians seduced by visions of postwar conciliation, testing the limits of the federal government in determining the extent of states’ rights. Klan War is a bold and bracing record of America’s past that reveals the bloody, Reconstruction-era roots of present-day battles to protect the ballot box and stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies."
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