Friedenberg said what appealed to him about the book was that "the characters and milieu they were in represented everything that was good about America and everything that was bad." On the one hand, he said, the book dealt with the strength of the family and not necessarily with traditional families. On the other hand, he said, it dealt with ignorance and prejudice. Mr. Friedenberg said he found it perplexing and almost impossible to understand Mr. Carter's motives and literary ambitions. Although Mr. Carter, who wrote four books, failed to address the issue of his bigotry publicly, Mr. Friedenberg said he believed that "his apology was in his literature." For example, he said, the handful of Blacks and Jews in his books are depicted sympathetically. "The bad guys are almost, without fail, rich whites, politicians and phony preachers," Mr. Friedenberg said. Oprah Winfrey, who in 1994 endorsed Little Tree, subsequently removed it from her list of recommended book titles: I no longer—even though I had been moved by the story—felt the same about this book," Winfrey said in 1994. "There's a part of me that said, 'Well, OK, if a person has two sides of them and can write this wonderful story and also write the segregation forever speech, maybe that's OK.' But I couldn't—I couldn't live with that. The book has also been criticized on literary grounds: "I am surprised, of course, that Winfrey would recommend it", said Loriene Roy, president of the American Library Association. "Besides the questions about the author's identity, the book is known for a simplistic plot that used a lot of stereotypical imagery." Works by Forrest Carter Books The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972; (Whippoorwill Pub., 1973; reprinted by Delacorte in 1975 as Gone to Texas; and by Dell in 1980 as The Outlaw Josey Wales) The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales (1976, Delacorte Press) The Education of Little Tree (1976, Delacorte Press) Watch for Me on the Mountain (1978, Delacorte Press; 1980, republished by Dell as Cry Geronimo!) The Wanderings of Little Tree (Unfinished) Film adaptations The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) The Return of Josey Wales (1986) The Education of Little Tree (1997) Media about Carter Books about Carter faking his ethnicity Films about Carter The documentary The Reconstruction of Asa Carter (2011) examines Carter's past as a KKK leader and the person who wrote George Wallace's "Segregation Now! Segregation Forever!" speech, and