Название: American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Автор: Adam Hochschild
Издательство: Mariner Books
ISBN: ‎0358455464
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 432
Размер: 30,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.