Personaly I've been reading mostly about men who were Masons, Franklin, Rosevelt, Washington ect.
I find looking at Pike's personality from the perspective of books that were not related to his Masonic life, but he political, personal, and millitary life much more intresting. It gives some other perspectives that would shed light on his choices...for example, many would point at him and say that he was a confed officer, and a suspected member of the clan, but keep in mind that he beleaved in states rights and ones own idividual liberty....giving little mind to the views of 2008...
He may have been a member of the clan, but what we now think of as the KKK was not what it was in his time, but infact it was a group of men who wished to remember what they had been through in the war. Somthing more like a VFW with out the booze. Sadly it was infiltrated by the sons of men who had passed and the southeren men who did not enlist in the CSA and those bad apples mixed with emotions that changed what Nathon Bedfor Forrest had started.
I come to this thinking by reading books about Masons, but books that do not touch on that detail.
