Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy By Edward Ball

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"A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball’s entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance." —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book ReviewA 2020 NPR staff pick | One of The New York Times' thirteen books to watch for in August | One of The Washington Post's ten books to read in August | A Literary Hub best book of the summer| One of Kirkus Reviews' sixteen best books to read in AugustThe life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award–winner Edward BallLife 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. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his family’s anti-black militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail.Sifting through family lore about “our Klansman” as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampages—all part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. To offer a non-white view of the Ku-klux, Ball seeks out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by “our Klansman” and his comrades, and shares their stories.For whites, to have a Klansman in the family tree is no rare thing: Demographic estimates suggest that fifty percent of whites in the United States have at least one ancestor who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan at some point in its history. That is, one-half of white Americans could write a Klan family memoir, if they wished.In an era when racist ideology and violence are again loose in the public square, Life of a Klansman offers a personal origin story of white supremacy. Ball’s family memoir traces the vines that have grown from militant roots in the Old South into the bitter fruit of the present, when whiteness is again a cause that can veer into hate and domestic terror.

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Much as people like to imagine ourselves as products of our own free will, our lives are constricted by the choices made by those who came before us. For half of white Americans, those forebears include at least one member of the Ku Klux Klan, murderous vigilantes and militia members who successfully overthrew Reconstruction and resurrected white supremacy in the post-Civil War South.Edward Ball set out to tell this history by focusing on his own Ku Kluxer, his great-great-grandfather. Constant Lecorgne, a white Creole in New Orleans, was an insignificant figure, an impoverished carpenter who upon his death of malaria in 1886 merited neither an obituary nor a gravestone. But he was a foot soldier in the victorious white supremacist movement that set us on our historical path.Ball has done a masterful job of historical research, collecting up the scant crumbs left behind by Lecorgne and his family and interweaving them with rich period detail from the epic struggles of the day. There were moments when I thought the author stretched a bit too far in extrapolating from the meager record to ascribe motivations and especially emotions to the long-dead carpenter, but that is my only minor quibble. Overall, this book is a phenomenal work of historical reconstruction that sheds new light on a momentous period that all of us would do well to understand.

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