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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
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From the author of King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars, American Midnight is an enthralling, at times terrifying rollercoaster of a read about a period when government power threatened lives and liberty in unprecedented ways and unexpected heroes rose out of the maelstrom. Democracy in America is a precarious experiment, and its fate has often hung in the balance, but as Adam Hochschild, makes plain, the years from 1917 to 1921 were a particularly insidious and brutal nadir. We may have “righted” course in various degrees, of but the legacies remain through today.
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor
"A riveting, resonant account of the fragility of freedom.”-Kirkus, STARRED review
The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousand...