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

by Timothy Egan

the plan was real. “You wouldn’t have called it President,” he said. “The form of government might have changed. You might have had a dictator.”

Many Klan members were attracted to the creed of Aryan purity coming out of Nazi Germany, and left the order to join groups such as the German American Bund.

“those who passed through that dark decade never realized the full import of what was happening.”