Todd Schafer’s Reviews > American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis > Status Update

The last major public speaking event, and the last of his whirlwind Wilson tour was in Pueblo, Colorado.

The lynchings that happened after World war I were absolutely brutal. A woman was hung by her feet burned and the baby was cut out of her stomach and let fall into the ground and the riders stomped the baby to death. Nobody was ever charged

Hanson, the mayor of Seattle, was the face of business as he managed to quell the 1919 riots there that were doing so out of sympathy for the Bolsheviks. Ole Hanson also had ten children, the men named after US Presidents like William Howard Taft Hanson, and Theodore Roosevelt Hanson. Also women were encouraged to go on strike too, so their striking husbands would give up on their strikes.

The union headed most by the American business owners was definitely the iww or the wobblies

TR does not come off well in this narrative being portrayed essentially as a warmonger