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

by Timothy Egan

By the close of 1923, Indiana would have more Klansmen than any other state—north or south. Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all.

Though many of the colonists were fleeing religious persecution, it wasn’t long before some were practicing what had been preached against them back in Europe.