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reviewed The rise of the Ku Klux Klan by Rory McVeigh (Social movements, protest, and contention -- v. 32)

Rory McVeigh: The rise of the Ku Klux Klan (Paperback, 2009, University of Minnesota Press) 2 stars

Rory McVeigh provides a revealing analysis of the broad social agenda of 1920s-era KKK, showing …

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2 stars

Not great. Overly theoretical. A social science text drawing from only one source is rather boring; would rather have just read issues of the Imperial Night-Hawk instead. His power devaluation model/theory is only halfheartedly promoted here, but his way of speaking about it is as if it's some grandiose, groundbreaking system.

Hardly a masterwork.