Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan : The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate/

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The work Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan : The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate/ represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan : The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate/

Title remainder

The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate/

Statement of responsibility

Richard Bowers

Title variation

Superman vs. the Ku Klux Klan

Creator

• Bowers, Rick, 1952-

Contributor

• cloudLibrary

Subject

• Electronic books
• Human rights workers -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• Prejudices -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature
• Superman (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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. 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. 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. 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. From the Hardcover edition

Cataloging source

MnSpTMCL

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries