Books Why Was 1919 So Bad
Why 1919, a year which, as Hagedorn notes, has been “tucked away between the ‘Great War’ and the ‘Roaring Twenties’,” and remembered mostly for the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, which brought World War I to a formal end? Though it takes her until page 423 to come out and say it, this was a year that “laid the groundwork for so many aspects of modern America, from the struggles for free speech and black equality to the establishment of a system of domestic intelligence....