The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics Book

I read this book for a class that I am taking, and to be frank I did not like it that much. The book focuses on the second rising of the KKK, basically its revival in 1915, and not the original movement itself. What I found extremely irritating is that the majority of the data have been extracted from the KKK's own newspaper ˆThe Imperial Night-Hawkˆ.

It does provide a very different view on KKK - it offers a macrostructural framework of analysis, and the book tries to elucidate the three different components that incited the KKK's mobilization. McVeigh poses a new social movement analysis theory "the power devaluation model" through which he tries to explain how privileged groups, when feeling threatened politically, economically, and socially by other groups try to preserve or regain their privileges.

It's an interesting read to some extent, but I got annoyed from the lack of historical background for the general reader [such as myself:]...