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Cobb’s fame spread in the postwar years because of his creativity and his writing successes. He returned to his passion for reporting and politics when he covered the 1920 Democratic and Republican conventions. Cobb also began to roll out numerous books during this time, quickly compiling his short stories and articles into longer publications. The Ku Klux Klan achieved a resurgence in Kentucky, and Cobb wrote about it. Though Cobb opposed the modern version of the Klan in the early 1920s, his views of race remained tied to his late-nineteenth-century southern heritage.