Selling hate : marketing the Ku Klux Klan / Dale W. Laackman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laackman, Dale W., author.

Standardized Title:

For the kingdom and the power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).

Swindlers and swindling--United States.

Swindlers and swindling.

Advertising executives--United States.

Advertising executives.

Racism--United States--20th century.

Racism.

Membership requirements.

Race relations.

Tyler, Elizabeth, 1881-1924.

Tyler, Elizabeth.

Clarke, Edward Young, 1877-.

Clarke, Edward Young.

Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Membership--History.

History.

United States--Race relations--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

[Second edition].

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Selling Hate is a fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan's agenda. Dale W. Laackman uncovers never-before-published archival material, census records, and obscure books and letters to tell the story of an emerging communications industry filled with potential and fraught with peril. The brilliant, amoral, and spectacularly bold Bessie Tyler and Edward Young Clarke--together, the Southern Publicity Association--met the fervent William Joseph Simmons, founder of the second KKK, saw an opportunity, and played on his many weaknesses. It was the volatile, precarious terrain of post-World War I America. Tyler and Clarke took Simmons's dying and broke KKK, with its two thousand to three thousand associates in Georgia and Alabama, and in a few short years swelled its membership to nearly five million, with chapters in every state of the union. Even to modern sensibilities, the extent of Tyler and Clarke's scheme is shocking: the limitlessness of their audacity; the full-scale and ongoing con of Simmons; the size of the personal fortunes they earned, amassed, stole in the process; and just how easily and expertly they exploited the particular fears and prejudices of every corner of America. You will recognize in this pair a very American sense of showmanship and an accepted, even celebrated, brash entrepreneurial hustle. And, as their story winds down, the tainted and ultimately ineffectual congressional hearings into the Klan's monumental growth."--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 True Believer

ch. 2 Flim-Flam Man

ch. 3 On Her Own

ch. 4 An Association

ch. 5 Contract with the Devil

ch. 6 Fertile Ground

ch. 7 Power Play

ch. 8 The Whistle

ch. 9 The World

ch. 10 Damage Control

ch. 11 Shock Waves

ch. 12 Flight

ch. 13 End Game.

Notes:

First edition published in 2014 by S. Woodhouse Books as: For the kingdom and the power : the big money swindle that spread hate across America.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.

ISBN:

9780820358093

0820358096

OCLC:

1228055048

Publisher Number:

99987453908