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Ball, winner of the National Book Award for Slaves in the Family, returns with a book about his family history. This time, he writes about an ancestor on his mother's side, Polycarp Constant Lecorgne of New Orleans, with whom Ball has long been fascinated due to the family's legend of his association with the Ku Klux Klan. Admitting that he has virtually no sources from Lecorgne himself that explain his thoughts, feelings...Log In or Sign Up to Read More