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Mar 2023
25m 58s

American Paranoia

THE TLS
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft considers how the First World War triggered a wave of xenophobia and a Red Scare.


https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/american-midnight-adam-hochschild-book-review-geoffrey-wheatcroft/




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