The release date for the English version of 'A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them' by
Timothy Egan is Apr 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author's historical novel narrates the gripping tale of the Klan's ascent to power in the 1920s, the crafty con artist who spearheaded that ascent, and the woman who put an end to them.
One way to define the Jazz Age, or the Roaring Twenties, is as Gatsby's flamboyant period. However, it was also the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, a hate organization that was exclusive to America. The Heartland and the West were their realm, not the former Confederacy. They took drastic measures to prevent Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants from realizing the American dream since they detested all of these groups equally. And it was D.C. Stephenson, a charming fraud, who started their conquest of vast regions of America.
Stephenson had a captivating personality, and every time his life narrative was told, it became better. Two years after moving to Indiana, he was the Grand Dragon of the state and the mastermind behind the plan that saw the organization emerge from the shadows, with their message being promoted at town festivals, family outings, and pulpits. Prosecutors, senators, governors, ministers, and judges from all around the nation loudly declared their membership. During his height of popularity, however, it was a seemingly helpless lady named Madge Oberholtzer who would eventually bring the Klan to its knees by disclosing his hidden atrocities on her deathbed.
A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND combines a compelling storyline with a compelling and gripping examination of one of the most sinister strands in American history.