![]() ![]() ![]() Woodrow Wilson presided over the entire toxic political and social landscape. Among numerous others, those who benefitted most politically were J. From the country’s entry into World War I until Warren Harding became president, the federal government and law enforcement agencies joined with the civilian-staffed American Protective League and union-busting industrialists to censor newspapers and magazines fabricate communist conspiracies surveil and imprison conscientious objectors and labor leaders (particularly the Wobblies) harass socialists, German immigrants, pacifists, and Jews deport foreigners without due process and stand aside as police and vigilantes killed labor activists and destroyed Black communities and formed lynch mobs. “Never was raw underside of our national life more revealingly on display.” Those years, he writes, were rife with “the toxic currents of racism, nativism, Red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law have long flowed through American life”-and clearly still do today. ![]() ![]() A history of the early-20th-century assault on civil rights and those the federal government deemed un-American.įor Hochschild-the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among many other honors-one of America’s darkest periods was between 19. ![]()
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