Blood of the Liberals

Source Type: Other
Creator: George Packer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of publication: New York, New York
Date of publication: 2000
Transcript:

Race riots in northern cities left hundreds dead, and in the South the number of lynching surged, with eight in Alabama, including a certain Cicero Cage, who was cut to pieces in Tuscaloosa. The pressures of war, immigration, black demands and Migration, Bolshevik revolution in Russia, and anxiety among small-town Americans about the alien modern world, combined into a kind of national psychosis.

 

Citation:

p. 88. George Packer, 2000. Blood of the Liberals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.