{"product_id":"common-cause-a-novel-of-the-war-in-america-paperback-softback-9781640120020","title":"Common Cause; A Novel of the War in America (Paperback \/ softback) 9781640120020","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCommon Cause\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Novel of the War in America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSamuel Hopkins Adams (Author), John Maxwell Hamilton (Edited by), Amy Solomon Whitehead (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781640120020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 July 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e396 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.634 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Samuel Hopkins Adams was the embodiment of the perplexing and confounding American nature careening between patriotism and bigotry, idealism and war mania. His book \u003ci\u003eCommon Cause: A Novel of the War in America\u003c\/i\u003e is a pertinent lesson for our times when values clash with each other and good men do things that they may regret. There is much here to ponder.”-Alex S. Jones, Pulitzer Prize winner and former director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCommon Cause\u003c\/i\u003e, in this superbly annotated edition, is an unexpected and timely reminder of the distorted emotions that spike in moments of heightened patriotism. Samuel Hopkins Adams was a first-rate polemicist, and the target of his novel, while set a century ago during World War I, is a familiar bogeyman: the hyphenated American whose country of origin is at war with the United States. Back then it was German-Americans; later, it would be Japanese-Americans and Arab-Americans. Reading this wartime novel one hundred years after its first publication is a disturbing reminder of the enduring characteristics of xenophobia.”-Peter Finn, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eA lost literary relic of the First World War, \u003ci\u003eCommon Cause\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fictional midwestern town of Fenchester. The \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e’s muckraking has led special interests to withhold advertising in order to drive Robson out of business. But he and local plutocrats put their differences aside when war is declared in 1917 in order to attack the German-American community for its supposed fealty to their Fatherland.\u003ci\u003e Common Cause\u003c\/i\u003e provides a vivid picture of the America-first fear and hate that gripped the midwestern United States during the Great War.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Potomac Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52633524404504,"sku":"9781640120020","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/common-cause-a-novel-of-the-war-in-america-paperback-softback-9781640120020","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}