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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
4.34 AVERAGE
2.51k reviews for:
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan
4.34 AVERAGE
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informative
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Such an informative and well-researched book about the KKK in Indiana. I recommend this book to everyone.
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This book was very boring to me. It wasn’t so much about how one woman took down the KKK, as the description says. It was a detailed history of its growth in the 1920s. I sludged my way through this book, waiting for something, anything, to happen. I read through each meeting the Klan ever had and each march they participated in. Finally, I read about Madge Oberheltzer and what happened to her. Then it goes into more detail about the success of the Klan, then another glimpse of Madge. All to find out, she didn’t do that much at all. Her lawyers were awesome, though. They did the hard work to ensure the leader of the Klan’s demise. I was hoping she was some bad ass female advocate who made it her mission to bring them all down. Unfortunately, while she was very brave and strong, this is not that kind of book.
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Holy crap.
Have you seen this book?
Heard talk of it and it's close-to-home relatedness?
What a Must-Read.
For Hoosiers, for Midweterners, and the rest of all of us.
I am sorry.
What a horrible and tragic historic reality that we still live yet today. A Today that so similarly parallels Timothy Egan's retelling of past horrendous debauching abuses of people and of power.
That we have inexplicably and so despicably seemed to, in recent times, excused, ignored, quietly supported... and laughed off .. leaned into... and/or turned out head and kept walking.
Just as the monstrous mainstream did in the 1920s, we somehow still deplorably allow charlatans space and grace. We enable them. Empower them. Defer to them. And, often, root for them, vicariously or otherwise.
I am sorry.
Already knowing this deplorable past, it is abominable in how many ways we repeat and continue this inhumanity. How we short-change our personal responsibilities to each other and against this bigotry.
Egan's parallels of today need no amplification.
Other than pulling on our heartstrings of remorse, of repenting-- and, yes, of redress-- along with calls to action for not-so-quietly pushing this atrociousness back into its shameful past.
To be having the same behaviors, social repugnancy, loathsome hedonistic self-indulgence... not to mention, just plain hateful fear .. and week-kneed complicity, dishonorably veiled in any number of excuses, there is nothing much to say, but 'I am sorry.'
Along with some outward, sustained, seismic shift in how we treat others. How we see people outside our sheltered small visions.
Someday... we might actualize The Dream.
I am sorry that we are still living and fighting the same perversities. .. and, at the same time, am redoubled in my resolve to make immediate positive change for our near futures.
I am sorry. So sorry.
Have you seen this book?
Heard talk of it and it's close-to-home relatedness?
What a Must-Read.
For Hoosiers, for Midweterners, and the rest of all of us.
I am sorry.
What a horrible and tragic historic reality that we still live yet today. A Today that so similarly parallels Timothy Egan's retelling of past horrendous debauching abuses of people and of power.
That we have inexplicably and so despicably seemed to, in recent times, excused, ignored, quietly supported... and laughed off .. leaned into... and/or turned out head and kept walking.
Just as the monstrous mainstream did in the 1920s, we somehow still deplorably allow charlatans space and grace. We enable them. Empower them. Defer to them. And, often, root for them, vicariously or otherwise.
I am sorry.
Already knowing this deplorable past, it is abominable in how many ways we repeat and continue this inhumanity. How we short-change our personal responsibilities to each other and against this bigotry.
Egan's parallels of today need no amplification.
Other than pulling on our heartstrings of remorse, of repenting-- and, yes, of redress-- along with calls to action for not-so-quietly pushing this atrociousness back into its shameful past.
To be having the same behaviors, social repugnancy, loathsome hedonistic self-indulgence... not to mention, just plain hateful fear .. and week-kneed complicity, dishonorably veiled in any number of excuses, there is nothing much to say, but 'I am sorry.'
Along with some outward, sustained, seismic shift in how we treat others. How we see people outside our sheltered small visions.
Someday... we might actualize The Dream.
I am sorry that we are still living and fighting the same perversities. .. and, at the same time, am redoubled in my resolve to make immediate positive change for our near futures.
I am sorry. So sorry.
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