A Fever in the Heartland

You would never know that we are only 100 years from having had nearly an entire state taken over (3, actually) by the Ku Klux Klan. Worse, the way DC Stephenson is portrayed in this book sounds like some crazy "billionaire" lunatic I had the misfortune of watching on television tonight. Alas... they all get theirs in the end, right?

When Madge Oberholtzer approached D.C. Stephenson at a party one evening, all she wanted was for him to pull some strings with the Indiana legislature to preserve her literacy program position. She knew that Stephenson was a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan, but she had no idea that the man sitting across from her would one day kill her. In A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, historian Timothy Egan recounts the rise and fall of the KKK in Indiana and Oberholtzer’s tragic role in bringing down Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley, for review consideration.