Klandestine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Klu Klux Klan: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan Paperback – 1 April 2000

After seeing a programme about the author, Daryl Davis, on Channel 4 about 5 years ago, my husband announced he wanted to read his book.After looking on here and seeing prices of £ 70 + he decided he could wait until a cheaper copy came along. I kept checking the prices and finally one became available at a reasonable cost - the original selling price of the book !After 5 years of him wanting this tomb I proudly waited on Christmas morning for him to unwrap it, and he was totally overjoyed. Later that day he started to read it, and a week later it was finished. He was absolutely thrilled with it and proceeded to tell me all the amazing things he had learned about the Klan. Don't get it wrong though, this is not a book that promotes the Klan, their ideology or their methods of intimidating and abusing people. It's the story of how one black man in the deep south of the USA, systematically set about trying to understand the people who joined it's ranks and eventually became friends with several of them, eventually getting several to leave and get others to go as well.It ended up with these individuals understanding that colour of skin doesn't matter, leaving the KKK, and giving Daryl their robes, which he now displays in a room in his home.It's not your typical bedtime reading material, but is well written, funny at times, sad in places, and thought provoking. If quality of reading material is important to you, it's well worth spending some money on, but I really couldn't justify spending any more than a little over the cover price - but that's not just this book. That's any book in my opinion. Well worthy of an eye-opening read in to the more distateful side of human bigotry and hate.

You know what you are getting with this book but definitely worth the read for the price of the book. Never realized the KKK was so wide spread but going by this book they don't seem to well organized or even that racist half the time if their relationship to the author is anything to go by.

This is an easy-to-read, "living with the enemy" style exploration of white supremacy groups in the US. Having never read about the KKK etc in much depth before, this book exploded many myths for me. For example, there are hundreds of different Klans in existence, and their politics vary hugely from group to group,even their opinions on non-whites. I can't imagine this book exciting anyone that isn't truly interested in examining the causes and themes of racism, but if you are, this is a good read.