Freakonomics

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living and reaching some astonishing conclusions, Freakonomics will make you see the familiar world through a completely original lens.

Kennedy, a folklorist at heart, apparently wanted to put across the most dramatic
story possible, and therefore included not only his own antiKlan activities but
those of another man, codenamed John Brown. Brown was a union worker and a
former Klan official who had changed his ways and offered to infiltrate the Klan. It
was John Brown who apparently performed many of the most dramatic and
dangerous episodes portrayed in The Klan Unmasked—physically attending
Klan ...