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Dinner & A Book

A Fever in the Heartland

Gail Martin and guest Todd Cummings talk about “A Fever in the Heartland.”

06/08/2024 | Rating NR

Dinner & A Book

A Fever in the Heartland

Season 23 Episode 23 | 26m 46s

Gail Martin and guest Todd Cummings talk about “A Fever in the Heartland.”

The Roaring Twenties --the Jazz Age -- the height of an American hate group the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and Indiana in particular. They hated everyone who was not white and Protestant. The man who set in motion the Klan's takeover of parts of America was a charismatic charlatan named D. C. Stephenson. Within two years of his a...

06/08/2024 | Rating NR

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Dinner & A Book

A Fever in the Heartland

Season 23 Episode 23 | 26m 46s

The Roaring Twenties --the Jazz Age -- the height of an American hate group the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and Indiana in particular. They hated everyone who was not white and Protestant. The man who set in motion the Klan's takeover of parts of America was a charismatic charlatan named D. C. Stephenson. Within two years of his a...

06/08/2024 | Rating NR

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