{"product_id":"fever-in-the-heartland-the-ku-klux-klans-plot-to-take-over-america-and-the-woman-who-stopped-them","title":"Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BESTSELLER ‚Ä¢ A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Notable Work of Nonfiction ‚Ä¢ An NPR Best Book of the Year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of the Year ‚Ä¢  A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA New York Public Library Best Book of the Year ‚Ä¢ A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"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‚Äîand how a grisly murder of a woman brought him down. Compelling and chillingly resonant with our own time.\" ‚ÄîErik Larson, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Splendid and the Vile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‚ÄúRiveting‚ĶEgan is a brilliant researcher and lucid writer.‚Äù \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he‚Äôd become the Grand Dragon of the state and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows ‚Äì their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman ‚Äì Madge Oberholtzer ‚Äì who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111217336605,"sku":"9780735225282","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780735225282.jpg?v=1751042320","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/fever-in-the-heartland-the-ku-klux-klans-plot-to-take-over-america-and-the-woman-who-stopped-them","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}