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.
