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

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  • 9780063278523
  • 07 december 2023
  • 432 pagina's
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Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild (New York, 1942) schreef voor The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, New York Review of Books, Granta, New York Times Magazine en vele andere kranten en tijdschriften. Hij schreef onder andere Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey en The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. Met zijn verzameling Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won hij de pen/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award voor Essays. Met De geest van koning Leopold II en de plundering van de Congo behoorde hij tot een van de finalisten voor de National Book Critics Award. Zijn boeken zijn in vele talen vertaald.

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National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction

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, immigration, and the rights of labor

The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced—in one notable case, only in private. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of citizens’ arrests. Some seventy-five newspapers and magazines were banned from the mail and forced to close. When the government stepped in, it was often to fan the flames.

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. 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.

In American Midnight, award-winning historian Adam Hochschild brings alive the horrifying yet inspiring four years following the U.S. 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.

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