Peter Stehman

Patriotic Murder (eBook, PDF)

A World War I Hate Crime for Uncle Sam

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Prager, a lonely German immigrant searching for the American dream, was probably the most shameful U.S. casualty of World War I. From coast to coast, Americans had been whipped into a patriotic frenzy by a steady diet of government propaganda and hate-mongering. In Collinsville, Illinois, an enraged, drunken mob hung Prager from a tree just after midnight on April 5, 1918. Coal miners in the St. Louis suburb would show the nation they were doing their patriotic part-that they, too, were fighting the fight. And who would stop them anyway? Not the alderman or businessmen who watched silently. Not the four policemen who let Prager from their custody, without drawing a weapon. And who would hold the mob leaders accountable? Certainly not the jury that took just ten minutes to acquit them, all while a band played "The Star-Spangled Banner" in the courthouse lobby. Peter Stehman sheds light on the era's hijacking of civil liberties and a forgotten crime some might say has fallen prey to "patriotic amnesia." Unfortunately, the lessons from Patriotic Murder on intolerance and hate still resonate today as anti-immigration rhetoric and über-nationalism have resurfaced in American political discussion a century later.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640121003
• Artikelnr.: 72310249

Autorenporträt

Peter Stehman is a local Collinsville, Illinois, historian and writer. He is a retired City of Collinsville fire chief and has written numerous articles on public safety. He has held a lifelong interest in the Robert Prager tragedy and the environment that enabled it.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. It’s Plain Murder, but What Can You Do?
2. A Small Town, a Great War
3. United We Stand
4. You Are Either for Us or against Us
5. A Little Tar Might Help
6. I Am Heart and Soul for the Good Old USA
7. I Want to Tell and Get It off My Mind
8. A Farcical Patriotic Orgy
9. It Seems a Nightmare
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index