Consider the chapter in which he spends time in the Ozarks with an ambitious grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

He attends a session in which the grand wizard's wife attempts to give the hard-bitten Klansmen "personality tests" to classify them as "popular sanguines" or "powerful cholerics."

The Knights of the KKK were founded in 1975 by David Duke, who became its first grand wizard.

He reached the rank of grand wizard before quitting in 1980.

Scared and disillusioned, the rest of the Klansmen, many of them dropping their attire, leave the scene, leaving Barr, the grand wizard, to fend for himself.

After the war, he returned to Memphis and, in 1867, became the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

In Washington, Republicans disavowed the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and said he would receive no support from them.

He later joined the Klan and became a grand wizard.

The former grand wizard - or was he only a kleagle or a klaxon?

Hendrik Verwoerd, grand wizard of white supremacy, dies from a punctured lung and heart.