![]() ![]() We really enjoyed having Adam with us and hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did. It’s a fantastic book, well researched book that delivers some much-needed context and perspective as all of us try to make sense or our own times. ![]() Adam is the author eleven books including his most recent, “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.” Our guide through this tumultuous period and today’s guest is journalist, historian and professor, Adam Hochschild. A period many of us have forgotten but a time that included the first world war, widespread suppression of speech and the press, mass imprisonment, horrifying lynchings of black Americans (including black veterans), labor strikes and yes, the Spanish flu pandemic. If you think our current political atmosphere, divisiveness and the daily onslaught of negative news is unprecedented in American history, consider the period between 19. 4, 2022 A history of the early-20th-century assault on civil rights and those the federal government deemed un-American. This ignorance makes the present more baffling than it needs to be.” That from a Washington Post review of today’s book is the perfect start for today’s episode. AMERICAN MIDNIGHT THE GREAT WAR, A VIOLENT PEACE, AND DEMOCRACY'S FORGOTTEN CRISIS by Adam Hochschild RELEASE DATE: Oct. The genteel Woodrow Wilson censored the media and threw his political. “Too many Americans are indifferent to their own history and know too little about it. An American president doesnt have to be a loud showman to be an aspiring autocrat. ![]()
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