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by Timothy Egan

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Readers describe Timothy Egan’s account of the Klan’s power in 1920s Indiana as deeply researched, clearly structured, and uncomfortably relevant to current politics. Many found it informative and horrifying in its detached depiction of violence, though some criticized a title and framing that overstate a single woman’s agency and suggest the Klan’s end. A minority disliked Egan’s prose, but most considered it an important, if grim, read.

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NEW 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. 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 author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.

The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.

Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he'd become the Grand Dragon of the state and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows - their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman - Madge Oberholtzer - who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees.

A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.

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  • Title A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
  • Author Timothy Egan
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking
  • Publication date 2023-04-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780735225268 / 0735225265
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Indiana - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022029431
  • Dewey Decimal Code 322.420

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  • Booklist, 02/01/2023, Page 12
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 03/01/2023, Page 146
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/01/2022, Page 15
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/13/2023, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 04/07/2023, Page 0

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Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of nine other books, most recently the highly acclaimed A Pilgrimage to Eternity and The Immortal Irishman, a New York Times bestseller. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won a National Book Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. His account of photographer Edward Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, won the Carnegie Medal for nonfiction.
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