{"id":5344,"date":"2022-09-20T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/?p=5344"},"modified":"2024-06-13T23:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T03:36:33","slug":"book-black-klansman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastelgoth.net\/blog\/book-black-klansman\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"BlackTitle:<\/strong> Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Author:<\/strong> Ron Stallworth<\/a>
Narrator:<\/strong> Ron Stallworth<\/a>
First Published:<\/strong> June 5, 2018<\/span>
Publisher:<\/strong> Macmillan Audio<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 208
Genre:<\/strong> Memoir<\/a>, Non-Fiction<\/a>, True Crime<\/a>
Format:<\/strong> Audiobook<\/a>
Source:<\/strong> Library<\/a>
Rating:<\/strong> <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/a>
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Synopsis:<\/strong>

When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department, comes across a classified ad in the local paper asking for all those interested in joining the Ku Klux Klan to contact a P.O. box, Detective Stallworth does his job and responds with interest, using his real name while posing as a white man. He figures he\u2019ll receive a few brochures in the mail, maybe even a magazine, and learn more about a growing terrorist threat in his community.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later the office phone rings, and the caller asks Ron a question he thought he\u2019d never have to answer, \u201cWould you like to join our cause?\u201d This is 1978, and the KKK is on the rise in the United States. Its Grand Wizard, David Duke, has made a name for himself, appearing on talk shows, and major magazine interviews preaching a \u201ckinder\u201d Klan that wants nothing more than to preserve a heritage, and to restore a nation to its former glory.<\/p>\n

Ron answers the caller\u2019s question that night with a yes, launching what is surely one of the most audacious, and incredible undercover investigations in history. Ron recruits his partner Chuck to play the \"white\" Ron Stallworth, while Stallworth himself conducts all subsequent phone conversations. During the months-long investigation, Stallworth sabotages cross burnings, exposes white supremacists in the military, and even befriends David Duke himself.<\/p>\n

Black Klansman is an amazing true story that reads like a crime thriller, and a searing portrait of a divided America and the extraordinary heroes who dare to fight back.<\/p>\nGet the Book:<\/strong> Amazon<\/a>\r\n

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