· LIFE OF A KLANSMAN A Family History in White Supremacy By Edward Ball When his mother died in , the writer Edward Ball went to New Orleans, where her family had lived for generations, to bury Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. 11 rows · The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National /5(). In Life of a Klansman, Edward Ball returns to the subject of his National Book Award-winning classic Slaves in the Family: the mechanisms of white supremacy in America, as understood through the lives of his own ancestors. This time, he tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War.
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy is written by American author, Edward Ball. The book is his family's historical memoir where he describes the story of his great-great-grandfather (his grandmother's grandfather), who had joined the Ku Klux Klan and carried out terrorist attacks in a bid to protect Louisiana's white. Life of a Klansman: a family history in white supremacy / Edward Ball. Ball, Edward, (author.). Place Hold. Add to basket Remove from basket Print / Email. Permalink "Life of a Klansman: a family history in white supremacy." New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award-winner Edward Ball Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War.
In his earlier book, Ball disinterred his family’s enslaving history from a 10,document archive, but in “Life of a Klansman,” he takes a more speculative approach, sketching Lecorgne’s. Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy. In his book, Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy, Ball explores the life of his maternal great-great-grandfather, Polycarp Constant Lecorgne ( ), called Constant. Ball's family referred to him as a 19th-century Klansman. The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award-winner Edward Ball Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War.
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