A fever in the heartland the Ku Klux Klan's plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them
"A 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. The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz Age--has been characterized as a tim...
| Main Author: | Egan, Timothy (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York, New York] :
Viking,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The quintessential American
- Part one: An empire of hate. Birth and death of the Klan
- An opening in Indiana
- Men with badges
- A coup and a clash
- Woman of the year
- The other Indiana
- The unmasking
- Creating D. C. Stephenson
- A master race in the Midwest
- Independence Day
- Governors, guns, and God
- Part two: Monster of the midway. Lord of the manor
- Rage of the resistance
- The Klan on top
- Hoosier hysteria
- The last train to Chicago
- A vigil in Irvington
- The witness
- Part three: Reckoning. Big man in a small town
- One nation under a shroud
- To slay a dragon
- She said
- Inside and outside
- He said
- The closers
- Verdict
- Dirt from the dragon
- Epilogue.