A lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fictional midwestern town of Fenchester. The Guardian’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. Common Cause provides a vivid picture of the America-first fear and hate that gripped the midwestern United States during the Great War.
- ISBN10 1640120025
- ISBN13 9781640120020
- Publish Date 1 July 2019 (first published 17 December 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Potomac Books Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 396
- Language English