A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist. 
Boys, let us get up a club.With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend’s mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South.This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America’s democracy. Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and diaries, this account from Newbery Honor-winning author Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book to read and remember.


本書入圍美國青少年圖書館服務協會獎。
兄弟們，來組個團吧！ 1866 年在田納西州的普拉斯基縣， 6 個血氣方剛的年輕人因為這一席話，進到朋友別墅，將枕頭套拆掉套在頭上，騎著馬到街上恣意狂歡。此六人把自己的團體取名為三 K 黨。不久，三 K 黨勢力迅速壯大，自稱「隱形帝國」，秘密巢穴遍及南方各地。本書寫的就是這個秘密的恐怖組織如何生根於美國民主社會的故事。本書由紐伯瑞銀牌獎得主蘇珊‧坎貝爾‧芭托蕾蒂所著，內容取自令人顫慄卻傳神的口述歷史、國會資料及日記，是本值得一讀、讓人記住的好書。