Oxford University Press, 1994

When Nancy MacLean unmasks the Ku Klux Klan, the results are predictably bad for the KKK. But the results are even worse for good people, solid citizens, the progressive middle class, all of us who can say, as did the late writer Truman Capote, “My parents and my neighbors were racists, but at least they didn’t join the Ku Klux Klan.”