More than two thousand people were arrested during the war for speaking out against American involvement, some sentenced to as many as twenty years in prison.141 And when, in 1920, a bomb exploded outside Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s home in Washington, a young Wilson administration appointee named J. Edgar Hoover ordered the arrests of a range of purported anarchists and communists, some of whom were summarily deported.142
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