{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Adam Hochschild Forum: American Midnight","description":"Adam Hochschild Forum: American Midnight Grace Cathedral, San Francisco\u202f Between World War I and the Roaring Twenties lies a largely forgotten chapter of American history\u2014one whose tensions still echo a hundred years later. In these turbulent years, democracy was tested by war, pandemic, and violence driven by conflicts over race, immigration, and labor rights. In\u202fAmerican Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy\u2019s Forgotten Crisis, legendary historian Adam Hochschild brings this moment vividly to life, revealing both the repression that darkened the era and the Americans who struggled to repair a fractured nation. The forces they confronted did not disappear; they continue to reverberate.\u202f Join Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Hochschild on how the past resonates into the present, and shapes the questions we\u2019re asking today. Recorded at Grace Cathedral on March 1, 2026. Give to Grace\u202f You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. gracecathedral.org\/give Become a GraceArts Member Love engaging dialogue? We offer a special cultural membership program, GraceArts, focused exclusively on the arts and well-being. GraceArts allows a wider community to belong to and support Grace, with discounts and benefits on a robust schedule of events. Learn more and join at gracecathedral.org\/join. About the Guest Adam Hochschild\u202f(pronunciation: \u201dHoch\u201d as in \u201dspoke\u201d; \u201dschild\u201d as in \u201dbuild\u201d) is the author of eleven books.\u202fAmerican Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy\u2019s Forgotten Crisis\u202fis his most recent. His preceding book, the biography\u202fRebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, was published in 2020.\u202f\u202fSpain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, appeared in 2016. Of his earlier books,\u202fBury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire\u2019s Slaves\u202fwon the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.\u202fKing Leopold\u2019s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa\u202fand\u202fTo End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918\u202fwere both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His\u202fFinding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels\u202fand the recent\u202fLessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays\u202fcollect his shorter pieces, including magazine reporting from five continents. Earlier in his career, he was a reporter for the\u202fSan Francisco Chronicle, a commentator on National Public Radio\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered,\u201d and a co-founder, editor, and writer at\u202fMother Jones\u202fmagazine.\u202f He has received the Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Historical Association and in 2014 was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a three-time winner of the California Book Awards\u2019 Gold Medal for Nonfiction. About the Moderator The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young\u202fis the dean of Grace Cathedral. He is the author of\u202fThe Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau\u202fand\u202fThe Invisible Hand in Wilderness: Economics, Ecology, and God, and is a regular contributor on religion to the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner. \u202f\u202f About\u202fThe\u202fForum The Forum\u202fis a series of stimulating conversations about faith and ethics in relation to the important issues of our day. We invite inspiring and illustrious people to sit down for a real conversation with the Forum\u2019s host and with you. Our guests range from artists, inventors and philosophers to pop culturists and elected officials, but the point of\u202fThe Forum\u202fis singular: civil, sophisticated discourse that engages minds and hearts to think in new ways about the world.\u202f\u202fLearn more about The Forum here:\u202f\u202f\u202f gracecathedral.org\/the-forum ","author_name":"The Forum at Grace Cathedral","author_url":"http:\/\/www.gracecathedral.org\/","html":"