American Midnight Revisited with Adam Hochschild
Indivisible Santa Fe Radio by Donovan Kolbly and Gary Kowalski
Episode notes
Hosts Donovan and Gary talk with historian and renowned journalist Adam Hochschild, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, about his most recent book American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace and America’s Forgotten Crisis.. Hysteria over immigration, attacks on free speech, jailing of "subversives" and political prisoners, a surge in lynching and racial violence, gross disparities of wealth and anxiety over women's liberation (women had just won the vote) characterized America in the years 1917-1921. What can we learn from a dark passage of history so similar to the shadows now hanging over our democracy?
Keywords
DemocracyEconomic JusticeCivil Liberties