"You will be sorry you ever moved into 5810 Randolph Street, Jew boy!" That was the first of several anonymous threats Cantor Michael Weisser got from Larry Trapp, Grand Dragon of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Nebraska - a man the FBI and local police considered armed and dangerous.For years, Trapp had led a campaign of terror in Lincoln, Nebraska, a campaign he relished. Accustomed to inspiring fear in others, Trapp was caught off guard when Cantor Weisser and his wife refused to be intimidated. Then the Weissers went further and made an offer of friendship that stunned him. After an emotional confrontation with the Weissers, Trapp shocked everyone - including himself - by resigning from the KKK and breaking his ties with other national neo-Nazi and white supremacist leaders. "They showed me such love that I couldn't help but love them back..."Trapp later said.Not by the Sword tells the story of Larry Trapp's life as a racist, his astonishing transformation in response to the Weissers' kindness, and his subsequent crusade to redeem his past life by apologizing to his victims and speaking out publicly against racism and bigotry. Not by the Sword movingly describes how one family, along with other individuals from the Jewish, African-American, and Asian-American communities in Lincoln, feared, fought, and then forgave a man who had tried to destroy them. Eventually, the Weissers grew so close to Larry Trapp that when he was diagnosed as terminally ill, they took him into their home and cared for him until his death. Read Less