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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>Our book for May is <i>American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis</i> by Adam Hochschild. The discussion will take place on Saturday, May 18 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div style="text-align: center;" dir="" data-setdir="true"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:81633142-9766-0e8e-43dc-463cc8a3319f@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="max-width: 800px;" data-id="<81633142-9766-0e8e-43dc-463cc8a3319f@yahoo.com>"></div><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">From Amazon:</div><div>The nation was on the brink. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced. 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.</div><div><br></div><div>This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era blighted by lynchings, censorship, and the sadistic, sometimes fatal abuse of conscientious objectors in military prisons – a time whose toxic currents of racism, nativism, red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law then flowed directly through the intervening decades to poison our own.</div><div><br></div><div>“A harrowing portrait of America in 1917–21, rife with racist violence, xenophobia and political repression abetted by the federal government. The book serves as a cautionary tale and a provocative counterpoint to our own era.” – <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, Editors' Choice</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr">Hope to see you on the 18th,<br></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Kevin & Paula</div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>