Review by iphi_kc13 - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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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 by Timothy Egan

This book was hard to read at some parts, but inspiring at others. You learn things about the KKK And how they came into power and spread like wildfire across the US. The numbers were far greater than I was taught in school. The parallels to current events in the US is breathtakingly hard to read but, I think, you gain a modicum of hope. The 1920s are usually remembered for being “the roaring 20s” and not the KKK, but I won’t forget what I’ve learned. Normal, everyday people who joined a hate group, some naively. They took over towns across the Midwest and big portions of our Government but then, because of a few brave Americans, were shut down and shunned. Learning the true history of the US should be required so we stop repeating it.

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