Revolution at the Waldorf: America and the Irish War of Independence

New York, 1919. The lights of Broadway are back on. With victory in Europe, and influenza on the wane, a new generation was leading the metropolis of the world into the Jazz Age. America was still trying to define itself; the eighteenth amendment had been passed, the country was going dry; anarchist bombings, organized labor and bitter strikes fueled a Red Scare; the Ku Klux Klan had become a political force and interracial violence was rife during the Red Summer.

The ‘President’ of the self...