This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. org/commoncore for more information.. natgeoed.
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Above all, it tells the Story of Superman himself--a modern mythical hero and an embodiment of the cultural reality of his times--from the Great Depression to the present.
It is the Story Ku Klux Klan\'s development from a club to a huge money-making machine powered by the powers of fear and Hate and of the folklorist who--along with many other activists-- took on the Klan by wielding the power of words.
It is the Story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force.
This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan
