Dottie perched on the edge of the desk, crossed her legs, and looked at me coyly over her highball. I leaned back . . .

I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody knew I was trying to reach a big audience with the Klan book.

I swear my memory is going.

In all modesty, I am a hard man to discredit.

Oral history represents a democratization of the history-telling process ... this thing of having history recorded from on high for us, instead of doing it for ourselves, has proven to be a risky business. We need to have history from the bottom up.

The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.