![]() Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. The Roaring Twenties-the Jazz Age-has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. “Riveting…Egan is a brilliant researcher and lucid writer.” - Minneapolis Star TribuneĪ historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. ![]() Compelling and chillingly resonant with our own time." -Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile ![]() "With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, with a plan to rule the country-and how a grisly murder of a woman brought him down. ![]()
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