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  • Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A.

    The Laws, Customs and Etiquette Governing the Conduct of Nonwhites and Other Minorities as Second-Class Citizens

    “A history of the United States that is almost incredible.” —Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Temps ModernesJim Crow Guide to the U.S.A. by Stetson Kennedy is a bold exposé of America’s institutionalized racism, originally published in 1959 and hailed as a landmark in civil rights literature. With unflinching clarity, Kennedy documents the laws, customs, and social codes that relegated nonwhite citizens to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Klan Unmasked

    With a New Introduction by David Pilgrim and a New Author's Note

    The Klan Unmasked is a riveting exposé of one of the most daring undercover operations in American history. In the 1920s, journalist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan at the height of its power, risking his life to expose the group’s secrets, rituals, and violent agenda. With the precision of a spy and the pen of a poet, Kennedy documented the Klan’s inner workings and fed intelligence ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Grits & Grunts

    Folkloric Key West

    Many a book has been written about Key West, but there has never been anything like Stetson Kennedy's Grits & Grunts, a portrait of the Key West that was. Neither a history (though you will learn a lot about Key West's unique past) nor a guidebook (though you will learn more about Key West than any guides offer), Grits & Grunts is a treasure trove gleaned from the rich multiculture that came to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Southern Exposure

    Making the South Safe for Democracy

    Using thorough and stark statistics, Kennedy describes a South emerging from World War II, coming to grips with the racism and feudalism that had held it back for generations. He includes an all-out Who’s Who, based on his own undercover investigations, of the "hate-mongers, race-racketeers, and terrorists who swore that apartheid must go on forever." The first paperback edition brings to a new ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The President's House

    1800 to the Present The Secrets and History of the World's Most Famous Home

    As Margaret Truman knows from firsthand experience, living in the White House can be exhilarating and maddening, alarming and exhausting–but it is certainly never dull. Part private residence, part goldfish bowl, and part national shrine, the White House is both the most important address in America and the most intensely scrutinized. In this splendid blend of the personal and historic, Margaret ... Read more

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  • Death of a Nation

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  • A Fever in the Heartland

    The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... Read more

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