Unmasking the Klansman Audiobook Libro.fm

Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter one of the Souths most notorious white supremacists and secret Klansman In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governors infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing segregation now segregation tomorrow segregation forever When Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972 few knew that he had assumed a new identity in Abilene Texas masquerading as a Cherokee American novelist Using the name Forrest Carter he published three successful Western novels including The Rebel Outlaw which Clint Eastwood made into a movie His last book The Education of Little Tree a fake biography of his supposed Indian childhood posthumously became a number one bestseller in 1991

Author Dan T Carter uncovered Forrest Carters true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times oped he exposed Carters deception Although the difficulties of uncovering the full story of the secretive Carter initially led him to abandon the project in 2018 he gained access to more than two hundred interviews by the late Anniston newsman Fred Burger These recordings and his two decades of exhaustive research finally brought Asa Carters story into focus Unmasking the Klansman is the result