A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan
Buy on AmazonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist "With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, with a plan to rule the country—and how a grisly murder of a woman brought him down.…
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"This fascinating and timely book about the second rise of the Ku Klux Klan in America reads like a legal thriller. The story follows the rise and fall of Indiana’s con-man-ish grand dragon, D.C. Stephenson, whose qualities may remind some readers of a certain prominent political figure of today. When a woman brings an unlikely case against him, it challenges the status quo in 1920s Indiana, where belonging to the KKK became as common and as socially acceptable as belonging to the Rotary Club."
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