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~PDF~ @DOWNLOAD› American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

COPY LINK: https://isbooktoday.com/freedom/B09PGFLR2B From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor A riveting, resonant account of the fragility of freedom.&#8221 &#8212 Kirkus, STARRED reviewThe nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced&#8212 in one notable case, only in private. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of citizens&#8217 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 lynchin

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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor A riveting, resonant account of the fragility of freedom.&#8221 &#8212 Kirkus, STARRED reviewThe nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced&#8212 in one notable case, only in private. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of citizens&#8217 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 lynchin

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