Ulysses S. Grant Picked a Confederate Slave Owner to Take Down the KKK

Ulysses S. Grant Picked a Confederate Slave Owner to Take Down the KKK

Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s exhaustively researched new book on what amounted to the twilight of the Reconstruction era, “Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan.”