'A Fever In The Heartland' – relentlessly riveting, essential read on the courageous woman who brought down the KKK in Midwest

Twenty one years ago, Chuck Offenburger and I had ringside seats for a rare and fascinating journalistic forum: the now late George “Lefty” Mills, the legendary Des Moines Register reporter, the late Bob Beck, the former publisher of Centerville’s Daily Iowegian, a towering figure in journalism and Republican politics for decades, and my uncle, James B.…