Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s-by far the most successful incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War-and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Texas district attorney, demonstrated that Klansmen could be punished for taking the law into their own hands.