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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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I found this book to be incredibly informative. As a Midwesterner myself, I had no idea the level of influence the KKK had on the region. I appreciate Timothy Egan’s level of/attention to detail concerning the permeation of the KKK in Indiana. The whole story (as much as reasonably fit into the book) needed to be told.
The book is divided into three main sections. Without going into detail, the first section has to set the stage for the latter two. At times I found this section to be repetitive. However, despite feeling as though I was reading the same few sentences every couple chapters, I recognize the necessity of having these details mentioned.
Overall, I couldn’t put this book down and I’d recommend to everyone. Like myself, you may find your assumptions about the KKK to be slightly off reality - it was so much larger, so much closer to home, and had a much tighter grip on society than I was prepared for.
The book is divided into three main sections. Without going into detail, the first section has to set the stage for the latter two. At times I found this section to be repetitive. However, despite feeling as though I was reading the same few sentences every couple chapters, I recognize the necessity of having these details mentioned.
Overall, I couldn’t put this book down and I’d recommend to everyone. Like myself, you may find your assumptions about the KKK to be slightly off reality - it was so much larger, so much closer to home, and had a much tighter grip on society than I was prepared for.
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Devastatingly relevant to read this history and see how MAGA has followed the same playbook.
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i am unhappy to report this did not hit the way it should have
the subtitle is very misleading. “the woman who stopped them” is a woman, Madge, who endured extreme violence, sexual abuse and kidnapping by a klan leader, DC Stephenson, and her case actually wasn’t ignored (assuming mostly because she’s white) and then people were like oh shit we can’t have this guy representing the klan. much less of a fight against the klan and their ideology, more a gruesome guy who made the klan look bad but what happened to Madge didn’t actually take the klan down in any meaningful way and that certainly was never her intention or of anyone fighting on her behalf
i think there was just a sensationalizing of what happened to this woman and not enough of anything related to the klan being “stopped.” the focus is shifted from the violence enacted upon countless numbers of Black people, to the violence inflicted on one white woman