![]() ![]() 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. Culprits are exposed and castigated, with President Woodrow Wilson at the top of the list. ![]() In Hochschild’s telling, the United States plunges into the madness of World War I, emerges more violent and hate-filled, and then recovers its bearings. ![]() In American Midnight, award-winning historian Adam Hochschild brings alive the horrifying yet inspiring four years following the U.S. In American Midnight, the darkness extends from 1917 to 1921. 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. ![]() 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: 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. ![]()
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