American Midnight

A great subject but written for people with maybe a high school level knowledge of the period.

Maybe also good reading for the America First crowd.

Some tighter copyediting might have been helpful. Four times it is mentioned that Emma Goldman was an accomplice to the assassination attempt on Henry Frick: a mention of why he was a loathed target would be helpful perhaps.

4.5 stars rounded up. This is a fascinating account about a period of American history of which I was largely ignorant. I do think, however, that the author may have allowed his reasonable outrage about the repression in America to cloud his judgment about Wilson's prosecution of the war in Europe. Still, thank goodness for Mr. Post and the clear-minded thinkers who got the country back on a somewhat fairer track.