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SUMMARY:Rodgers Readers (Evening Book Group) - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America\, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to discuss A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux 
 Klan's Plot to Take Over America\, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by 
 Timothy Egan\n\nRegistration is not required\, yet it's helpful for 
 planning purposes. \n\n\n\nSummary: A historical thriller by the Pulitzer 
 and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the 
 Klan's rise to power in the 1920s\, the cunning con man who drove that 
 rise\, and the woman who stopped them.The Roaring Twenties--the Jazz 
 Age--has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also 
 the height of the uniquely American hate group\, the Ku Klux Klan. Their 
 domain was not the old Confederacy\, but the Heartland and the West. They 
 hated Blacks\, Jews\, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure\, and took 
 radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man 
 who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a 
 charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson. Stephenson was a magnetic 
 presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of 
 his arrival in Indiana\, he’d become the Grand Dragon of the state and 
 the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows – 
 their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches\, spread at 
 family picnics and town celebrations. Judges\, prosecutors\, ministers\, 
 governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their 
 membership. But at the peak of his influence\, it was a seemingly powerless 
 woman – Madge Oberholtzer – who would reveal his secret cruelties\, and 
 whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees.A FEVER IN 
 THE HEARTLAND marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning 
 reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.\n\n\n\nNEW 
 YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction  An NPR 
 Best Book of the Year  A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year   A Chicago 
 Review of Books Best Book of the Year  A New York Public Library Best Book 
 of the Year  A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist"
LOCATION:Community Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Michele Ricca":MAILTO:michelericca@rodgerslibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult Services Program
CONTACT;CN="Michele Ricca":MAILTO:michelericca@rodgerslibrary.org
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