The fascinating double identity of Asa Carter is a subject of Dan Carter’s newest book, Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter, new from NewSouth Books. A distinguished Southern historian, Dan Carter (no relation) has spent decades researching his subject, who was a secret advisor to George Wallace in the 1960s and wrote his famous “Segregation now, Segregation Forever” speech. Asa Carter disappeared from Alabama in the ‘70s and resurfaced as a Cherokee author in Abilene, Texas, writing under the name Forrest Carter. Curiously, he went on to author the sensitively told The Education of Little Tree, which became a bestseller. The unbelievable story Carter’s life and activities is conveyed with vigor and insight in Unmasking the Klansman. It practically guarantees that Dan Carter’s bookstore talk will be every bit as interesting.