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A Fever in the Heartland

The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
  • Timothy Egan
2023
Viking

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  • Image of the outline of the United States in red fire.
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    A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again

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    When the Klan Ruled Indiana… And Had Plans to Spread Its Empire of Hate Across America

    The Klan dens of the heartland were powerful, vicious, and ambitious. Indiana was their bastion.
    by Timothy Egan via Literary Hub on April 4, 2023
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