A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them – Timothy Egan
“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. Compelling and chillingly resonant with our own time.” —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile. “Riveting…Egan is a brilliant researcher and lucid writer.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune. A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning ...