Historian Adam Hochschild examines the untold history of WWI in his new book, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.
Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist and historian. His works include King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918, and Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves.
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Now do Antifa, BLM and Riots of The Summer of 2020 or you all are just here for propaganda and it’s obvious
how does the modern reader keep up with the torrent of (good) books being published? seems like an impossible task?
Chris Hedges could’ve been a gazillionaire if he sold out like 99.99999% of our journalists
He’s richer than them all 4 chiding the road less traveled & Im grateful I’m walking the path to know it
The rotary blade snowplow of the Milwaukee Road Railroad for decades had a campaign poster of Woodrow Wilson located in the footwell of the operator's compartment so it could be kicked. The last sighting of the poster being in the 1980's. Mildly put, he was bitterly hated by railroad workers. He crushed the unions, revoked their second class mail privileges, had their private correspondence via first class mail opened and read and used as evidence, and fostered brutal working conditions when the Railroads were nationalized.
The railroads were unable to handle the war production and private capital was not going to spend the money to upgrade equipment and railroad structure and traffic and signal control to handle the freight volume.
''resented the newcomers coming in' – like today's MAGA, the hypocrisy is staggering.
#Colonialism #NativeAmericanGenocide #Slavery #Apartheid
Unmailable is today's untwitterable.
Great conversation on such an interesting time in history. It's unbelievable what forms of oppression existed and still persist that go almost completely untold to the general public. I really enjoyed this video.
Great conversation, thanks Chris!!!
I read about these events in the books of Howard Zinn, and Stephen Kinzer.
Hold up. These two guys are talking about a vigilantly problem. And Hedges calls them Right wing. While Hochschild uses as examples the Proud Boys and the Normie Cons who marched on the capital building. Is this a joke? The Proud Boys were a silly little club run by a comedian. And the Trump "marchers" were suburban and blue collar America firsters who'd had enough of their jobs being outsourced to China and India since 1991.
Who was setting fire to, and closing down cities two years ago. THE LEFT vigilantes. BLM and Antifa. I can respect Lefties like Hedges on some major issues. But they come from the Left so they'll always be kinda full of it. Blind spots. Perhaps they later mentioned BLM and Antifa, but I quit watching. 9:40.
thanks Chris for the continued enlightenment. 100 years ago has quite a lot in common with today.
Very interesting. I only knew a few fragments of the dark side of this era in the US. Things like president Taft passing anti-trade union laws, or eruptions of anti-German resentment at incidents like stoning a Dachshund to death.
My mum loathed Winston Churchill with a vengeance, mostly over the treatment of The South Wales Miners. Pretty much what you lay out here, done in The U.K..
After seeing this interview I got the audiobook to listen to while I garden. It is fantastic.
David Cole can tell you about the "secret history" JOHN 8:44…JOHN 2:22… ACTS 7:43
Great stuff!!!
Truth will set everyone free
I like your reporting
I just wish it wasn’t so biased and more balanced
I don't know why these folks always think it's oik to show blk men hanging from trees, Unless they show them hanging don't show one without the other**!!!**
Capitalism's greatest trick was convincing people that no other desirable economic model exists. Capitalism permeates every aspect of culture, wages wars, inculcates us with it's dead eyed values, starves and poisons and tortures, savages the planet, and cheerfully says "next", as the bolt gun goes to our heads.
Great interview.
29:35 Fun fact, Gary, Indiana was a company town. Let that sink in, and next time you watch the Music Man (oooold movie), propagandizing about that company town is what that song is about.
Sure didn't learn any of this in history class. The old adage applies, The Victor Writes History.
King Leopold's Ghost was a very good read.
I shall certainly look for this book as well.
Glad to know Mr. Hochschild is still writing.
American rightwingers learn techniques they use at home….this guy is goofy
This country is going to hell.
Thanks for the accurate history lesson.
These topics NEED to be introduced to the youth so they CAN SEE the storm coming BEFOR it hits. As all Americans we EACH will never be free nor achieve by divide and conquer tactics and if any one of us is not free to speak, free to think free to pursue liberty.
Stunning report – Thank you once again and AGAIN for ALL your stellar research and the work to bring light onto those darkened quieted things that NEED to be known to make PROGRESS and NOT REPEAT mistakes so that everyone is on the better side of history.