The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland

A detailed history of the Ku Klux Klan and an examination of its operations in the Midwest and its legacy in America today. “A sweeping portrayal of the ugly role of the Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland and its blot on American history. . . . This book burns.”―Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the Way “Who is an American?” asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were t