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• Author/Creator:McVeigh, Rory, author.
  
• Title:The politics of losing : Trump, the Klan, and the mainstreaming of resentment / Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep.
  
• ISBN:9780231190060
  0231190069
  9780231548700
  
• Publication:New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2019
  
• Physical Description:310 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
  

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  • Call Number: E184.A1 M356 2019 (LC)
    
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• Summary:The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one hundred years later, once again the pent-up anger of white Americans left behind by a changing economy has directed itself at immigrants and cultural outsiders and roiled a presidential election. In The Politics of Losing, Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep trace the parallels between the 1920s Klan and today's right-wing backlash, identifying the conditions that allow white nationalism to emerge from the shadows. White middle-class Protestant Americans in the 1920s found themselves stranded by an economy that was increasingly industrialized and fueled by immigrant labor. Mirroring the Klan's earlier tactics, Donald Trump delivered a message that mingled economic populism with deep cultural resentments. McVeigh and Estep present a sociological analysis of the Klan's outbreaks that goes beyond Trump the individual to show how his rise to power was made possible by a convergence of circumstances. The experience of declining privilege and perceptions of lost power can trigger a political backlash that overtly asserts white-nationalist goals. The Politics of Losing offers a rigorous and readable explanation for a recurrent phenomenon in American history, with important lessons about the origins of our alarming political climate.0Exhibition:
  
• Variant and related titles:Trump, the Klan, and the mainstreaming of resentment
  
• Other formats:Online version: McVeigh, Rory, author. Politics of losing New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:The Ku Klux Klan in American history -- Power and political alignments -- Economics and white nationalism -- Where Trump found his base -- Politics and white nationalism -- Status and white nationalism -- White nationalism versus the press -- The future of white nationalism and American politics.
  
• Subjects:Trump, Donald, 1946-
  Trump, Donald, 1946-
  Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--History.
  Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
  White nationalism--United States--History.
  White supremacy movements--United States--History.
  White people--Race identity--United States--History.
  Politics and government.
  Race relations--Political aspects.
  White nationalism.
  White supremacy movements.
  Whites--Race identity.
  United States--Race relations--Political aspects.
  United States--Politics and government--2017-
  United States.
  United States.
  
• Also listed under:Estep, Kevin, author.