Rachel’s Reviews > A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them > Status Update

"The second-wave Klan could return to its roots of terror because it had survived the kind of scrutiny that would have killed off any other secret society in a democracy. New York World in the fall of 1921 detailed murder, flogging, iron-branding, arson - at least 100 acts[...]
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[Imperial Wizard Simmons] dismissed the numerous stories of violence as the work of a "paper owned and controlled by a Jew."