"This year, I served as a judge for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Timothy Egan's 'A Fever in the Heartland' received an honorable mention in recognition of its over-all excellence and timeliness. Why is it especially timely? Because it tells the story of how an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the rise of a form of fascism in Indiana."
"Now, at a moment when hostility toward immigrants has reached a fever pitch in some quarters—and when disrespect for women's bodily autonomy is driving policy proposals, what happened in Indiana back in the Jazz Age is a sobering reminder of just what American society has been and could be again."
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