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Apr 2, 2023 · A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan. The scene, in some ways, could not have been more commonplace....
Apr 4, 2023 · New York Times Bestseller. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award chronicles a dark period when the Ku Klux Klan was ascendant. In 1866, in a small town in Tennessee, six White war veterans formed a secret brotherhood to share their disgust about the emancipation of Blacks.
Apr 4, 2023 · Timothy Egan, in “A Fever in the Heartland”, tells the ugly and brutal tale of Stephenson’s horrifying rise to fame and infamy as the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
May 18, 2023 · Timothy Egan’s ‘A Fever in the Heartland’ recounts how one man sparked the group’s resurgence in Indiana. Review by Richard Just. May 18, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. (Viking)
Sep 13, 2023 · The hypocrisy of the Klan is stunning, especially as it is practiced by Stephenson. While the “fraternal order” claims to be the great protector of white womanhood, Stephenson is a serial rapist who especially delights in biting his victims until they bleed.
Mar 31, 2023 · It's easy to imagine "A Fever in the Heartland" as an Erik Larson-style popular history, following two threads that eventually intertwine.
A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful, and profoundly resonant today. Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction Timothy Egan's history of the Ku Klux Klan's rise and fall is absolutely gripping.
Review by Anne Bartlett. The latest enthralling historical narrative from National Book Award-winning author Timothy Egan focuses on the rapid rise and spectacular collapse of the KKK in the 1920s.
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...
Award-winning author Timothy Egan turns his attention to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s in his whale of a book A Fever in the Heartland. The story begins in segregated Evansville, Indiana, where a con man named D.C. Stephenson set up shop.
