![]() ![]() He starts with the creators of Superman and explains how much the American people needed a superhero at the exact moment of Superman's creation. Rick Bowers weaves together two histories that would seem unrelated at first. In 1946, the Superman radio show broadcast a miniseries called The Clan of the Fiery Cross in which Superman takes on a white supremacist group modeled after the KKK. It was so well told and so fascinating that it definitely kept my interest and I can see it having high teen appeal. Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan is a book that I didn't want to put down. I love history books that read like a story someone's telling me, but I am easily bored by a lot of history books (even when the concept sounds like something I'd be interested in). He can leap tall buildings in a single bound.īut could Superman defeat the divide between races in America? Review copy provided by my local library. ![]() ![]() Grades 8+ National Geographic Children's Books, January 2012. Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate by Rick Bowers. ![]()
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