In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was ascendant in American culture and politics. Millions of followers revered one particular leader, a bigot with White House aspirations, until he was jailed for a rape conviction, diminishing the stature of the Klan in the public’s eye. “Egan mostly resists making explicit parallels to the present,” Richard Just wrote in The Washington Post’s review, “but they lurk just below the surface of this well-crafted and thoughtful book.” (Penguin, June 4)
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