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American Midnight

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
  • Adam Hochschild
2023
Mariner Books

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Featured Excerpts

  • Eugene Debs mug shots at the US Penitentiary in Atlanta.
    Book Review

    War Fever

    The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.
    by Eric Foner via The Nation on February 7, 2023
  • The Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs addressing a crowd, circa 1910.
    Book Review

    How World War I Crushed the American Left

    A new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.
    by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic on October 18, 2022

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SECRET stamped multiples times over the United States emblem.

The Troubled History of the Espionage Act

The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?
by Amy Davidson Sorkin via The New Yorker on December 11, 2023
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