Pages Through the Ages is a book discussion group focused on both historical nonfiction and fiction. This month the group will discuss Adam Hochschild's American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis. A Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, and New York Post.
Legendary historian Adam Hochschild wrote a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring '20s, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor.
In American 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.
Read a review from the Los Angeles Review of Books.
All history buffs are welcome! Copies of the books are available at The Westport Library patron service desk or electronically.
