A review by jojo50
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

4.5

Interesting assessment of the rise of the KKK in Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 1920s. Extremely terrifying parallels to the world today

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Antisemitism, Blood, Gaslighting, Violence, Confinement, Bullying, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Gun violence, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cannibalism