News & Reviews: Ten Dollars to Hate
In the News
Voting rights activists launch ‘moral’ march
July 28, 2021 | Dallas Morning News | Historian Bernstein quoted
The history of executive pardons has a Texas twist
January 22, 2021 | Houston Chronicle | Bernstein featured in Chronicle Outlook column
American-Statesman at 150: At turn of 19th century, Texas and Austin’s newspaper began to grow up
November 26, 2020 | Austin American-Statesman | Michael Barnes recommends Ten Dollars to Hate
A century later and still no anti-lynching legislation!
July 18, 2020 | Waco Tribune-Herald | Patricia Bernstein featured as Guest Columnist
Snowflakes Weekly Book Recommendation
March 31, 2020 | Snowflakes in a Blizzard | By Darrell Laurant
Texas Independence Week: 53 of the best books about Texas
March 1, 2019 | Austin American Statesman | By Michael Barnes & Dave Thomas
“Bernstein’s offering is a must-read for those interested in Texas history and for those seeking to better understand the tenor of our own times.”
January 2018 | Southwestern Historical Quarterly | By Kevin Portz
A short gift list for the nerd in your life
December 11, 2017 | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | By Jim Galloway
TEXANA READS: Put a little Texas reading under the tree
December 15, 2017 | Corpus Christi Caller Times | By Dr. Manual Flores
Ten Dollars To Hate and the Confederate statues controversies
June 5, 2017 | Morning Edition: NPR | By correspondent Wade Goodwyn
Author: Dan Moody, a hero and a racist
May 28, 2017 | The Williamson County Sun | Interview with Madison Simmons
Review: “Who will play Dan Moody in the Steven Spielberg movie?”
May 2017 | Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society | By Terence L. O’Rourke
Interview on SIRIUSXM’s POTUS Channel
April 14, 2017 | The Press Pool show | With host Julie Mason (Interview abridged)
Ten Dollars to Hate: Interview with Click2Houston
March 29, 2017 | Click2Houston | Interview with Derrick Shore and Jennifer Broome
Texas Matters: How the KKK Took Control Of Texas And How Dan Moody Broke Them
March 17, 2017 | Texas Public Radio | Texas Matters, interview with David Martin Davies
Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan
March 8, 2017 | Houston Matters | Political Roundup
The One-Question Interview: Patricia Bernstein
Patricia answers a single, but complicated, question.
March 2017 | Texas Monthly | Politics, with John Nova Lomax
We used to talk about immigrants this way — nearly a century ago
Patricia Bernstein’s personal essay about her own family’s immigrant experience and how today’s anti-immigrant rhetoric has echoes from decades such as the one she tackled in her new book about the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Ten Dollars to Hate.
February 24, 2017 | Trib Talk | By Patricia Bernstein
An “inclination to evil”
An excerpt from Patricia Bernstein’s new book, Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan.
February 12, 2017 | The Houston Chronicle
Other Mentions
Texas Author Shares Perspectives On History; Dan Moody
May 18, 2017 | The Advocate | Interview with Georgetown Advocate
Praise for Ten Dollars to Hate
“Really an incredible read.”
– Julie Mason, host of The Press Pool show on SiriusXM’s POTUS Politics channel (124)
“The Second Ku Klux Klan needed stopping, and the brave, successful prosecution by Dan Moody was flawless. The heart-stopping narrative by Patricia Bernstein is a winner.”
— Morris Dees, Cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
“A chilling story of how the KKK was on the march across the US and how Dan Moody, a Texas district attorney, fought the Klan – the most violent political organization in our history – brought them to justice, and broke their stronghold on Texas’ power structure. Patricia Bernstein’s dramatic book presents Dan Moody, Texas’ youngest governor, as a textbook study in political courage, demonstrating how eternal vigilance is still our safeguard against today’s threats from neo-Nazi and other ‘white supremacy’ movements!”
— Mark White, Former Governor of Texas
“Patricia Bernstein’s account of the Klan of a hundred years ago is a clarion call for vigilance today against all forms of bigotry, which victimizes those who are not considered ‘100% American’ because of their race, nationality, language, or religion. The book deserves a large readership, especially for those who are unfamiliar with the history of the Klan and their pernicious bigotry. It is also a valuable source for the many who have forgotten the disastrous influence of the Klan on American society and the fear and brutality it caused its many victims.”
— Joseph A. Fiorenza, Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston
“This book is an important examination of a dark episode in American history. It tells the story of how select individuals had the courage to stand up and oppose popular extremism – from a diminutive mother home alone with her children to a brave lawyer, who used the legal system against those acting outside the law. It reminds all of us to stand up for our convictions.”
— Fred Zeidman, Chairman Emeritus of the board, US Holocaust Museum
