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Cargando... Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crismon Feud of the 1920spor Victoria Pope Hubbell
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The most interesting thing about this book is the depiction of the Kl Klux Klan in Missouri during the 1920's. The story is heavily researched and reflects much of the thinking and culture of mid-Missouri during the 1920's. The Thompson family is the primary focus of the book due to the fact that the author was able to interview one of the descendants. Those interviews are interspersed between the telling of the story of the way families were categorized as either "for" or "against" the Klan. Strangely, the Klan at this time and in this place was not mainly focused on race, but rather Catholics and anyone of "immoral" character. Both the father of the Thompson and the father of the Crimson family were killed during this time of hard ship, fear, and general isolation of the location. Set in Miller County near Tuscumbia and the Lake of the Ozarks. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"The KKK weren't never about race. It were always about power and greed." So begins 86-year-old Hadley Thompson, who insists a rural historian research why two people were murdered. At first, Hubbell has little interest in the matter. Not only did the murders take place in 1924, there never was a question of who committed them. What difference could a motive make now? It is Thompson's insistence that an active Ku Klux Klan chapter fueled the feud between two blue-eyed, Baptist families that helps change Hubbell's mind. Soon Thompson and Hubbell are an unlikely duo, tramping through field grass, combing through copies of dusty newspapers, and driving down gravel roads to discover what made friends and neighbors turn against each other in post World War I America. More than just a story of a feud, Blood River Rising whispers a warning for today's increasingly diverse society. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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