Adam Hochschild on AMERICAN MIDNIGHT: THE GREAT WAR, A VIOLENT PEACE, AND DEMOCRACY'S FORGOTTEN CRISIS
"One of the ways you can get into my cast of characters is by leaving a very detailed written record. Because that's what we historians have to work from, you're not allowed to make stuff up like a novelist can\u2026 And, of course, it skews, to some extent, the way history is written. Because the rich leave more records than the poor, men leave more records than women, white people leave more records than Black and so on.\u201d
Adam Hochschild (King Leopold\u2019s Ghost) joins us on the show to talk about his latest book,\xa0American Midnight:\xa0The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy\u2019s Forgotten Crisis. Hochschild connects the dots between our America and an all-too familiar America of a century ago, riffing on power and deception, Woodrow Wilson\u2019s legacy, undercover agents, labor organizers, the Espionage Act of 1917, what\u2019s next for him and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.
Featured Books:
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy\u2019s Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
King Leopold\u2019s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Billy Lynn\u2019s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
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