American Midnight
Book description
National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction • A Best Book of 2022: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I…
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2 authors picked American Midnight as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This nonfiction picture of a “forgotten crisis,” the hysterical extremism in America surrounding World War I, is so packed with shocking information I finished it in a fury, thinking, “Everyone must read this book.”
As daily news reports strike so many these days with the sense that things have never been worse, I believe that we need to know more about history, understand the antecedents of our troubles, and learn from the brave men and women who fought evil and folly in the past.
The book presents so many parallels to today’s threats to democracy, some even more deadly than…
One of the great historians of our time just published the best overview of this period we have yet and it places the Red Scare and Red Summer (widespread attacks on Black communities on an unprecedented scale) of 1919 at the center of its 1917-1921 sweep. We get a great picture of how the World War I home front escalated repression and the U.S. connections to an explosive international situation during and after the war, including the Russian Revolution.
From Adam's list on the U.S. Red Scare of the Russian Revolution and WWI era.
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