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The book by Adam Hochschild explores a volatile period in U.S. history (1917–1921). It details a massive assault on civil liberties triggered by World War I, including mass imprisonments, censorship, and systemic violence against labor activists, immigrants, and Black Americans.

: The period was marked by intense labor strikes (e.g., the IWW or "Wobblies"), racial massacres like those in East St. Louis and Chicago, and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. The book by Adam Hochschild explores a volatile period in U

: Hochschild argues this era was the worst suppression of American civil rights since the aftermath of slavery. including mass imprisonments