xvii, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note
Revision of thesis (doctoral)--(University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Context and motive -- Mobilizing the invisible army -- Where money rules and morals rot: the vise of modernity -- Men in the middle: the class composition of the Klan -- Content and purpose -- Reactionary populism: the politics of class -- Cleaning up morality: the politics of sex and age -- The approaching apocalypse: the politics of race -- Paramilitary paternalism: the politics of terror -- Meanings -- The second Klan in larger perspective.