In Wildland he looks at his country since then, including events that he covered as a reporter: the last two presidential campaigns and the January 6, 2021, invasion of the Capitol. He is working fiercely to get his supporters into office in this fall’s election, and his shadow looms over the one coming up in 2024.Įvan Osnos was a New Yorker correspondent in China for some years before returning to the United States in 2013. After all, his margins of loss in the popular vote were not great, and over 11 million more people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016. But we still need to fully probe the sources of Donald Trump’s enormous appeal. How could this country elect, and almost reelect, a semifascist showman who flaunts his contempt for facts, laws, honest elections, and people with dark skin? Yes, we know the simple answer: the Electoral College.
King Leopold’s Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as was To End All Wars. His Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award.Like so many of us these days, all three of these journalists are ultimately searching for the sources of the pickle we’re in. About the AuthorĪDAM HOCHSCHILD is the author of ten books. American democracy nearly perished in the war at home.
Hochschild reveals how the Wilson government turned authoritarian, criminalizing dissent and crippling Reconstruction. This instability frightened American capitalism and its supporters. The aftermath of WWI saw Europe devastated, with ruined economies and a generation of men lost. Hochschild expertly portrays this period of upheaval, fear, and potential transformation, much like our current times. Political violence, racist mobs, and book banning were rampant.
Download Crisis of Command by Stuart Scheller PDF bookįrom the US entry into WWI to the start of the 20s, America was divided on issues of freedom, pluralism, and equal rights.
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