{"product_id":"book-grbx","title":"A Fever in the Heartland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA true-crime thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Ku Klux Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he had become the KKK’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudges, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Fever in the Heartland\u003c\/em\u003e combines a propulsive drama and a powerful, page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhoto courtesy of The Indiana Album: Evan Finch Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49323337417008,"sku":"BDgrbx","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49323337482544,"sku":"ZEgrbx","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/510617-grbx-Square.jpg?v=1733508866","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-grbx","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}