Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Times
bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel
unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a
nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. The
Given Day tells the story of two families—one black, one
white—swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists,
immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all
engaged in a battle for survival and power. Here, too, are some
of the most influential figures of the era—Babe Ruth; Eugene
O'Neill; leftist activist Jack Reed; NAACP founder W. E. B.
DuBois; Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's ruthless Red-chasing
attorney general; cunning Massachusetts governor Calvin
Coolidge; and an ambitious young Department of Justice lawyer
named John Hoover. Coursing through some of the pivotal events
of the time—including the Spanish Influenza pandemic—and
culminating in the Boston Police Strike of 1919, The Given Day
explores the crippling violence and irrepre