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TOPIC: Author/Historian Fergus Bordewich defines the KKK as “the first organized terrorist movement in American history.” Klan War reveals the bloody, Reconstruction-era roots of present-day battles to protect the ballot box and stamp out resurgent white supremacist ideologies.

To repel that virulent tidal wave of violence, President Ulysses S. Grant waged a two-term battle against both armed Southern enemies of Reconstruction and Northern politicians seduced by visions of postwar conciliation, testing the limits of the federal government in determining the extent of states’ rights.

SPEAKER: FERGUS M. BORDEWICH is the author of nine non-fiction books including Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction,(Alfred A. Knopf, 2023); Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery and Remade America (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020) and The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (Simon & Schuster, 2016. Winner of the 2019 D.B. Hardeman Prize).