Tag: Nathan Bedford Forrest

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Poor Hakeem Jeffries is being haunted. The New York Democrat currently sits as the leader of his party in the House of Representatives, but his prestigious position offers him no protection from the ghoul who is tormenting him, along with countless other victims. To make matters worse, this is no ordinary phantom like the ones who might be found scaring young trick-or-treaters on Halloween Night. This ghost feels far more comfortable on the battlefield than in the pumpkin patch. (more…)

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Edward Ball
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020

It is 2013 in the deep South of America, and deep in the woods it seems a historical film-set is in production. A dozen or so actors portraying men from America’s famous and notorious Ku Klux Klan are recreating the ceremony of the lighting of the burning cross. “Do you accept the light?” each Klansman is asked as he is handed a lit brand. (more…)

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Tom C. McKenney
Jack Hinson’s One-Man War
Gretna, La.: Pelican, 2009

Pitting oneself against the modern world can be a lonely endeavor. Sure, we can find company on the Internet. But if any of us has fellow travelers in our day-to-days lives, then we should consider ourselves lucky. I am sure we all can appreciate the lone person who stands athwart history, yelling “Stop!” and meaning it at the same time. It’s a rough road, but if you do it well, it can be a splendid thing. (more…)

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Thomas R. Pegram
One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011

The Ku Klux Klan suffers from a positively radioactive reputation, even among fellow Rightists. During the infamous family dinner scene in American History X, at which Edward Norton’s Derek Vinyard assaults his sister and displays his swastika tattoo to the Jewish teacher dating his widowed mother, (more…)