Background
Hochschild, Adam was born on October 5, 1942 in New York City. Son of Harold K. and Mary (Marquand) Hochschild.
( History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschi...)
History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.
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( Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’...)
Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin.
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( From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghos...)
From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation. The author lyrically evokes his privileged childhood on an Adirondack estate, a colorful uncle who was a pioneer aviator and fighter ace, and his first explorations of the larger world he encountered as he came of age in the tumultuous 1960s. But above all this is a story of a father and his only son and of the unexpected peace finally made between them.
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Hochschild, Adam was born on October 5, 1942 in New York City. Son of Harold K. and Mary (Marquand) Hochschild.
AB cum laude (honorary national scholar 1960-1961), Harvard University, 1963. Degree (honorary), Curry College, Massachusetts. Degree (honorary), University St. Andrews, Scotland.
Reporter San Francisco Chronicle, 1965-1966. Writer, editor Ramparts magazine, 1967-1968, 73-74. Commentator National Public Radio, 1982-1983.
Regents lecturer University California-Santa Cruz, 1987. Lecturer Graduate School Journalism University California, Berkeley, since 1992. Fulbright lecturer, India, 1997-1998.
( From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghos...)
( History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschi...)
( Although some twenty million people died during Stalin’...)
(A collection of magazine articles and literary essays by ...)
Married Arlie Russell, June 26, 1965. Children: David, Gabriel.