American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Developmental biology Annie Madden and her husband

Annie Madden and her husband Peter seemed to have the perfect life

• hard-wearing

and featuring illustrations by one of the authors

The first one was buying a crumbling piece of coastal real estate

can’t get enough of the festivities—she loves the thrilling jousts

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Developmental biology Annie Madden and her husbandNational Bestseller One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic,