Meticulously researched, fluidly written, and frequently enraging, this is a timely reminder of the “vigilant respect for civil rights and Constitutional safeguards” needed to protect democracy and forestall authoritarianism. He also documents outbreaks of racial violence, anarchist bombings, and the 1919 Palmer raids, which targeted the Union of Russian Workers. His father, Harold Hochschild, was of German Jewish descent his mother, Mary Marquand Hochschild, was of English and Scottish descent, and an uncle by marriage, Boris Sergievsky, was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force. Adam Hochschild American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Audio CD Unabridged, Octoby Adam Hochschild (Author) 676 ratings Editors' pick Best Books of 2022 See all formats and editions Kindle 15.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Though few records remain, Hochschild cites claims by one lawyer that between 19, 462 men and women were jailed by the federal government for a year or longer for their written or spoken words. Adam Hochschild was born in New York City. Hochschild documents how new laws ostensibly passed to protect America’s national security, including the Espionage and Sedition Acts, were weaponized against the foreign born, labor activists, and pacifists.
Even more common, however, was violence against coal miners, steel workers, and other laborers attempting to unionize. Historian Hochschild ( Rebel Cinderella) notes that increasing numbers of immigrants from Italy, Eastern Europe, and Russia during the early 20th century provoked nativist resentments and violent attacks from Americans whose Protestant ancestors came from England and northwestern Europe. to enter WWI to make the world “safe for democracy” ironically set the stage for an unprecedented attack on Americans’ civil liberties, according to this expert and eye-opening account. President Woodrow Wilson’s call for the U.S.
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