“Written in 1950, this book begins with the end of the Civil War and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. I got the impression that, initially, the KKK was a force for good in that it wanted to rid the south of carpetbaggers. But like all things, especially clandestine nightshirts, it twisted into the evil that power often creates. But I loved the characters--Hoyt, the upper class lawyer who reeked of ele”