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.