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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
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.
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,...