Under the Hood: Unmasking the Modern Ku Klux Klan

by Worth H. Weller and Brad Thompson

Book Overview

The American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan could easily have a presence in your community. They may have been to your county courthouse for a rally or they might have distributed their hate-filled... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966823109
• ISBN13: 9780966823103
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: DeWitt Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The REAL phantom menace

I spent a year in the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Brad Thompson and Jeff Berry are both friends of mine. this book is the first of many to soon appear about their activities. do not believe what the media or self-appointed civil righrs groups tell you. Read several books about the history of the KKK and then judge for yourself. make an informed decision. The really dangerous minds are not the ones you see in white sheets, but the ones you will never see in white shirts. This is a must read for Klansmen, and anti-kkk opposition

A well-written but chilling look at society.

Under the Hood: Unmasking the Modern Ku Klux Klan presents a well-written and yet chillling look at what temptation can lead otherwise rational human beings to do. Weller vividly describes what led Brad Thompson, a father saddened by the death of his son, to seek solace in what Thompson believed to be the power of the Ku Klux Klan. Thompson eventually became disillusioned with the KKK and left his mask behind. This book is an important one in that the author thought deeply about how he wished to portray his subjects and gives an accurate description of the history and movement of the Ku Klux Klan.

HERE, NOW AND STILL SICK

The Ku Klux Klan is alive and well. Even if this bad new is not surprising, what promulgates its existence is. Money. The Klan is quite profitable and uses its wealth to instill its creepy messages into a vulnerable, uneducated population. This includes not only poor white adults but even more disturbing, their children. Laced with beautiful, chilling photos, this book by newspaper editor-publisher Worth Weller and Brad Thompson, a recanted former Indiana Grand Dragon of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, makes you realize the Klan is here, now and growing, not just some dead vestige of a long ago war. If you live in any community, anywhere, you need to read this book!

courageous

In Under the Hood:Unmasking the Modern Ku Klux Klan, Worth Weller bravely enters the world of the Klan to expose it from the inside. Rather than starting his project with assumptions and stereotypes, Weller tells it how it is, and in the process reveals the Klan for what it is--a childish yet dangerous group that plays off the very real fears of poor whites in a twisted way, in order to gain money and power for the Klan's leadership. This is a deeply personal study of the Klan that is very important in understanding what makes the Klan appealing to poor whites, and what makes the Klan such a dangerous organization.