"Con Men and Klansmen: Colorado 100 Years Ago"

Journalist and author Alan Prendergast will discuss his new book GANGBUSTER, a nonfiction account of Denver District Attorney Phil Van Cise's battles against organized crime and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. Van Cise was a pioneer in the use of electronic surveillance and virtually the only public official who dared to oppose and investigate the Klan at a time when the group was in the process of taking over state government. He will also talk about the archival research that went into the project and why "the past is a lot closer than we think."