Scan barcode
A review by flowchelle
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
dark
informative
sad
fast-paced
4.5
Very informative! A well organized through line explaining the beginning and expansion of the KKK and the disgusting insanity that occurred within and because of this group. This was eye opening and felt more important in the shaping of our country than I would’ve thought. Even still! I didn’t know how wide spread and accepted the KKK was in the early 1900’s. The traces of these ideals are so much more deeply ingrained in American culture than I would’ve guessed.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Classism, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Genocide, Alcoholism, Death, Racism, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Antisemitism, Hate crime, Sexual violence, and Misogyny