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

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&nbsp;into prison for&nbsp;opinions they voiced--in one notable case, only&nbsp;in private. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of&nbsp;citizens' arrests.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp; This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era&nbsp;blighted by&nbsp;lynchings, censorship, and the sadistic, sometimes fatal abuse of conscientious objectors in military prisons--a time whose&nbsp;toxic currents of racism, nativism, red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law then flowed&nbsp;directly through the intervening decades to poison our own.&nbsp;It was a tumultuous&nbsp;period defined by a&nbsp;diverse and colorful cast of characters, some of whom fueled the injustice while others fought against it:&nbsp;from the sphinxlike Woodrow Wilson,&nbsp;to&nbsp;the fiery&nbsp;antiwar&nbsp;advocates&nbsp;Kate Richards O'Hare&nbsp;and Emma Goldman, to labor champion Eugene Debs, to a little-known&nbsp;but ambitious&nbsp;bureaucrat&nbsp;named&nbsp;J. Edgar Hoover, and to an outspoken leftwing agitator--who was in fact Hoover's star undercover agent.&nbsp;It&nbsp;is a time&nbsp;that&nbsp;we&nbsp;have mostly forgotten about, until now.&nbsp; In American Midnight, award-winning historian Adam Hochschild&nbsp;brings alive the&nbsp;horrifying yet inspiring four&nbsp;years&nbsp;following the U.S. entry into&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;

History

HOCHSCHILD, Adam

Americas

Mariner Books

The author, an activist in the anti-war movement and co-founder of "Mother Jones," America's largest progressive magazine, recounts his relationship with his father, chief of a multinational corporation that owned mines all over South Africa

Half the Way Home

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Penguin??Books

History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.

The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Jour-

Africa

Stalin's rule over Russia left some 20 million people dead and, in the 35 years since his death, no one would openly write or talk about his vast self-inflicted genocide. With the advent of glasnost, journalist Hochschild explores how Russians today are healing the wounds from an avalanche of long-repressed memories. Photos.

The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin

Russia

King Leopold's Ghost

Pan.

King Leopold's Ghost : A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in the Congo

World

Pan/Macmillan

King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa

Macmillan

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading exponent of the slave trade: profits soared and among the beneficiaries were the Church of England and London's Tate Gallery. Yet in the space of a few short years, beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery to the very centre of British political life, from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar. At their head was Thomas Clarkson, a divinity student who travelled 35,000 miles on horseback documenting abuses, talking to supporters, and evading attempts on his life. With Granville Sharp and James Phillips he founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and gave platforms to freed slaves such as Olaudah Equiano, who had experienced the horrors in full. Clarkson's movement resembled nothing England had ever seen before: outside both Parliament and Church, it was the first major embodiment of the forces that today we call civil society, and Hochschild, drawing on the voluminous letters and journals of the characters involved, brings it compellingly to life.

Bury the Chains : The First International Human Rights Movement

"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor 
“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review\nIn the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area’s population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold’s Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century’s first great human rights movement.\nA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 
A New York Times Notable Book

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Mariner Books Classics

National Bestseller • New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection • New York Times Editor's Choice • a most anticipated book of Fall 2022: the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune 
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. 
InAmerican 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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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Half the Way Home

The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Jour-

The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin

King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost : A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in the Congo

King Leopold's ghost: a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa

Bury the Chains : The First International Human Rights Movement

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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