A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
New · Nonfiction, History, True Crime
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
2023 · 432 pages · Nonfiction
54
New
★ 4.34 on Goodreads · 54K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Goodreads Choice (history biography) finalist (2023). 4.34★ from 54K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
54Must-Read Score
- Critics10 out of 100 · counts 35%+4
- Readers77 out of 100 · counts 50%+44
- Buzz37 out of 100 · counts 15%+6
Where it ranks
- #99 of the 220 history books we rank
- #151 of the 730 new books we rank
- #419 of the 1,344 books we rank
Shortlisted
- Goodreads Choice (history biography) finalist (2023)
Reads as
True story, Gripping, Dark
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