Not by the Sword

 “This rare investigation of American hate-mongering provides a unique glimpse as well at the power of tolerance and love. Once Watterson places us inside the Lincoln, Nebraska, apartment of the ‘Klansman’ of the subtitle, it’s almost impossible to put this book down.”—Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle 
 
“Watterson has written one of the most powerful, painful, yet healing stories about our most explosive issue: race. Her book [Not by the Sword] is not only literally true but also symbolically true for us as a people — if we acknowledge and transform who and what we are.”—Cornel West, author of  Race Matters 
 
“Not by the Sword tells an astonishing story of daring and resourcefulness in making contact with another who would negate one’s very right to exist. . . . Watterson’s account of the events is fascinating, and the story itself is so extraordinary that one cannot but be gripped by it.”—Paul L. Wachtel, Washington Post Book World