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

by Timothy Egan

As they moved closer into the Klan circle, recruits had to answer twenty questions from a membership checklist before becoming naturalized, including: “Are you a Gentile or a Jew? “Are you of the White race or Colored Race? “What color are your eyes? Hair? “Do you believe in the principles of pure Americanism? “Do you believe in White Supremacy?”