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Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild’s first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Afr...view moreAdam Hochschild’s first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold’s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in the UK, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. To End All Wars: a Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by Macmillan in 2011. His books have been translated into twelve languages.
Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one grandchild.view less
Books by Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Half The Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Audiobooks by Adam Hochschild
King Leopold's Ghost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5