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Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Flatiron Books
August 2018
On Sale: July 31, 2018
224 pages
ISBN: 1250313724
EAN: 9781250313720
Kindle: B078X26S6C
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The extraordinary true story and basis for the major
motion picture BlacKkKlansman, written and directed
by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John
David Washington and Adam Driver. 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’ll receive a few brochures in the mail,
maybe even a magazine, and learn more about a growing
terrorist threat in his community. A few weeks later the office phone rings, and the caller
asks Ron a question he thought he’d never have to answer,
“Would you like to join our cause?” 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
“kinder” Klan that wants nothing more than to preserve a
heritage, and to restore a nation to its former glory. Ron answers the caller’s 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. 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.
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