A Fever in the Heartland The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

eBook - 2023

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 St...ar TribuneA historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting... more