National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of
nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington
Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast
Company From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New
York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant
period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the
foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic,
and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the
rights of labor The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black
churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into
prison for opinions they voiced—in one notable case,
only in private. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of
thousands of citizens’ arrests. Some seventy-five
newspapers and magazines were banned from the mail and forced to
close. When the government stepped in, it was often to fan the
flames.  This was America during and after the Great
War: a brief but appalling era blighted by lynchings,
censorship, and the sadistic, sometimes fatal abuse of
conscientious objectors in military prisons—a time
whose toxic currents of racism, nativism, red-baiting, and
contempt for the rule of law then flowed directly through the
intervening decades to poison our own. It was a
tumultuous period defined by a diverse and colorful
cast of characters, some of whom fueled the injustice while others
fought against it:Â from the sphinxlike Woodrow
Wilson, to the
fiery antiwar advocates Kate Richards
O’Hare and Emma Goldman, to labor champion Eugene Debs, to
a little-known but
ambitious bureaucrat named J. Edgar Hoover, and
to an outspoken leftwing agitator—who was in fact Hoover’s star
undercover agent. It is a
time that we have mostly forgotten about, until
now. In American Midnight, award-winning historian Adam
Hochschild brings alive the horrifying yet inspiring
four years following the U.S. entry into the
First World War, spotlighting forgotten repression while
celebrating an unforgettable set of Americans who strove to fix
their fractured country—and showing how their struggles still
guide us today. Â
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollins Publishers
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Adam Hochschild
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
432 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-327852-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-06-327852-9 |
Barcode: |
9780063278523 |
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