{"product_id":"9781934099124","title":"Boldfaced Lies","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistory logs insist that the American Civil War ended May 9, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn explicit defiance, former Confederate military officers formed the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhite supremacist Ku Klux Klan, December 24, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since, all classes of white men, women and children have donned the Klan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehood and robe to perpetrate unspeakable crimes against immigrants, Catholics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Jews, and especially African Americans. Contrary to the romanticized myth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat Klan ranks are ensconced strictly in the South, Klaverns (chapters) have long\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeen coast-to-coast, as well as in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1925, Denver, and a state-wide number of other Colorado cites, were firmly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the social, political and economic grip of the “invisible empire.” The majority\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Denver’s elected officials, including its mayor, were members.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously, millions of African Americans were beginning new lives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeyond the former slave states. Many were light skinned enough to “pass for white.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd did so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Charlene Porter’s Denver Post #1 bestselling novel, Boldfaced Lies, Margaret\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowne, the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious Denver Klavern leader, learns that she\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis one-quarter Negro. Denver Public School Libraries rates Boldfaced Lies “an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimportant book about a shameful era of Colorado History.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Honorable Wellington Webb, Denver’s first African American mayor (1991\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto 2003) states: Charlene Porter is a gifted writer. In Boldfaced Lies she weaves a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethoughtful and suspenseful story about family subjects and experiences that were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elong taboo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf your book club list includes: The Help, Hidden Figures, Beloved, Small Great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings, Passing, The Warmth of Other Suns, Twelve Years a Slave, Sycamore Road,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor The Underground Railroad…be sure to add \u003cem\u003eBoldfaced Lies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistory logs insist that the American Civil War ended May 9, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn explicit defiance, former Confederate military officers formed the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhite supremacist Ku Klux Klan, December 24, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since, all classes of white men, women and children have donned the Klan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehood and robe to perpetrate unspeakable crimes against immigrants, Catholics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Jews, and especially African Americans. Contrary to the romanticized myth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat Klan ranks are ensconced strictly in the South, Klaverns (chapters) have long\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeen coast-to-coast, as well as in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1925, Denver, and a state-wide number of other Colorado cites, were firmly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the social, political and economic grip of the “invisible empire.” The majority\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Denver’s elected officials, including its mayor, were members.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimultaneously, millions of African Americans were beginning new lives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeyond the former slave states. Many were light skinned enough to “pass for white.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd did so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Charlene Porter’s Denver Post #1 bestselling novel, Boldfaced Lies, Margaret\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowne, the wife of a ruthlessly ambitious Denver Klavern leader, learns that she\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis one-quarter Negro. Denver Public School Libraries rates Boldfaced Lies “an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimportant book about a shameful era of Colorado History.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Honorable Wellington Webb, Denver’s first African American mayor (1991\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto 2003) states: Charlene Porter is a gifted writer. In Boldfaced Lies she weaves a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethoughtful and suspenseful story about family subjects and experiences that were\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elong taboo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf your book club list includes: The Help, Hidden Figures, Beloved, Small Great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings, Passing, The Warmth of Other Suns, Twelve Years a Slave, Sycamore Road,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor The Underground Railroad…be sure to add \u003cem\u003eBoldfaced Lies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bublish, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044120248560,"sku":"9781934099124","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934099124_p0.jpg?v=1763641167","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934099124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}