The most powerful exploration of racism you'll ever find in a modern novel, A Rumor of Appomattox delves into the tortured psyche of a committed klansman, exposing the emotional core and ideological framework of racism. This is a must-read novel for anyone committed to combating racism. Fortuna suggests that only by knowing racism and understanding racists can we ever hope to overcome the hatred at its center. He presents this novel, this relentlessly lyrical portrait of unrepentant bigot Fudd Markem, as an opportunity for readers to begin to understand racism as a first step to winning the fight against racial bigotry in America. Fudd Markem, for all his distorted values, is a compelling character whose struggle to adapt to a changed world illuminates with a pale and sickly light the hearts of white supremacists (and by extension bigots of all stripes) wherever they are found.