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Adam Hochschild

March 17, 2023

Adam Hochschild (/ˈhoʊkʃɪld/; born October 5, 1942) is an American author, journalist, historian[1] and lecturer. His best-known works include King Leopold's Ghost (1998), To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 (2011), Bury the Chains (2005), The Mirror at Midnight (1990), The Unquiet Ghost (1994), and Spain in Our Hearts (2016).

Adam Hochschild
Hochschild in 2017
Born (1942-10-05) October 5, 1942 (age 80)
New York City, United States
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist
SpouseArlie Russell Hochschild
Children2
Parent(s)Mary Marquand Hochschild
Harold K. Hochschild
FamilyBerthold Hochschild (grandfather)
Allan Marquand (grandfather)
Signature

Biography

Adam Hochschild was born in New York City. His father, Harold Hochschild, was of German Jewish descent; his mother, Mary Marquand Hochschild, was a Protestant, and an uncle by marriage, Boris Sergievsky, was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force. His German-born paternal grandfather Berthold Hochschild founded the mining firm American Metal Company. [2]

Hochschild graduated from Harvard in 1963 with a BA in History and Literature. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi during 1964. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would eventually write in his books Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son and Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the left-wing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was a co-founder of Mother Jones.[3] Much of his writing has been about issues of human rights and social justice.

A longtime lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Hochschild has also been a Fulbright Lecturer in India, Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Writer-in-Residence at the Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[4] He is married to sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild.

His books have been translated into fourteen languages.[5]

He lives in Berkeley, California.[6]

Works

Books

Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. In The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani called the book "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love."[7]

In The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (1990; new edition, 2007) he examines the tensions of modern South Africa through the prism of the nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River, which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world, as well as looking at the contentious commemoration of the event by rival groups 150 years later, at the height of the apartheid era.

In The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin[8] (1994; new edition, 2003), Hochschild chronicles the six months he spent in Russia, traveling to Siberia and the Arctic, interviewing gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, former members of the secret police and countless others about Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the country, during which millions of people (the actual toll will never be known) died.

Hochschild's Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels[9][10]

[11] (1997) collects his personal essays and shorter pieces of reportage, as does a more recent collection, Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays (2018).

His King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998; new edition, 2006) is a history of the conquest of the Congo by King Léopold II of Belgium, and of the atrocities that were committed under Leopold's private rule of the colony, events that led to the twentieth century's first great international human rights campaign. The book reignited interest and inquiry into Leopold's colonial regime in the Congo, but was met by some hostility in Belgium. According to The Guardian' review at the time of the book's first edition, the book "brought howls of rage from Belgium's ageing colonials and some professional historians even as it has climbed the country's best-seller lists."[12]

Hochschild's Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005) is about the antislavery movement in Britain. The story of how abolitionists organized to change the opinions of and bring greater awareness to the British public about slavery has attracted attention from contemporary climate change activists, who see an analogy to their own work.[13]

In 2011, Hochschild published To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918, which considers the First World War in terms of the struggle between those who felt the war was a noble crusade and those who felt it was not worth the sacrifice of millions of lives. His 2016 Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 follows a dozen characters through that conflict, among them volunteer soldiers and medical workers, journalists who covered the war, and a little-known American oilman who sold Francisco Franco most of the fuel for his military. Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, was published in 2020, and his latest, American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, in 2022. Hochschild's books have been translated into fifteen languages.

Journalism

Hochschild has also written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation and other publications. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Bibliography

Books

  • The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (1990/2007). ISBN 978-0-618-75825-8
  • The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994/2003). ISBN 978-0-618-25747-8
  • Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997). ISBN 0-8156-0594-3
  • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998/2006). ISBN 978-0-618-00190-3
  • Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (2005). ISBN 978-0-618-61907-8
  • Half the Way Home : A Memoir of Father and Son (Paperback ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2005 [1986].
  • To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 (2011). ISBN 978-0-547-75031-6
  • Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (2016). ISBN 978-0-547-97318-0
  • Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays (2018). ISBN 978-0-520-29724-1
  • Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes (2020). ISBN 978-1-328-86674-5
  • American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis (2022), covers the period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties.

Awards

References

  1. ^ "'Spain in Our Hearts,' by Adam Hochschild". Retrieved November 20, 2018.
  2. ^ Gordon, Mary (June 15, 1986). "Love In Heavy Armor". The New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  3. ^ "Adam Hochschild Bio at Mother Jones". Mother Jones.
  4. ^ "The Writer-in-Residence Program - History - UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu.
  5. ^ "Adam Hochschild". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  6. ^ "Adam Hochschild: On Unlearned History Repeating Itself". writersdigest.com. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  7. ^ Coming to Terms, June 21, 1986.
  8. ^ "THE UNQUIET GHOST by Adam Hochschild - Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  9. ^ "Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels by Adam Hochschild". publishersweekly.com. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  10. ^ "FINDING THE TRAPDOOR". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  11. ^ Silverman, Sue William (2000). "Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (review)". Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. 2 (1): 210–212. doi:10.1353/fge.2013.0294. ISSN 1522-3868. JSTOR 41938537. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
  12. ^ "The hidden holocaust". the Guardian. May 13, 1999. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  13. ^ Azar, Christian (2007). "Bury the chains and the carbon dioxide". Climatic Change. 85 (3–4): 473–5. Bibcode:2007ClCh...85..473A. doi:10.1007/s10584-007-9303-y. S2CID 154055686.
  14. ^ "Adam Hochschild to Receive AHA's Roosevelt-Wilson Prize - Perspectives on History - AHA". www.historians.org.
  15. ^ Julie Bosman (September 30, 2012). "Winners Named for Dayton Literary Peace Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2012.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adam Hochschild.
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Eleanor Wachtel of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews Hochschild about his life and work
  • Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air talks to Hochschild about To End All Wars, about American Midnight, and about Spain in Our Hearts
  • Interview about the craft of writing
  • Fresh Air review of Bury the Chains
  • Video conversation with Hochschild about King Leopold's Ghost
  • New York Times "By the Book" interviews Hochschild

Book excerpts:

  • from American Midnight
  • from Spain in Our Hearts
  • from To End All Wars
  • from Bury the Chains
  • from King Leopold’s Ghost
  • from The Unquiet Ghost
  • from Rebel Cinderella

Articles:

  • When America Tried to Deport its Radicals
  • A Hundred Years After the Armistice
  • How a Young Army Officer Built America's Empire of Paranoia
  • Blood and Treasure
  • The Brick Master of Kerala
  • on narrative writing, starting on p. 45
  • on writing history
  • a restorative justice pioneer at work
  • An odd museum reckons with a violent past

Author biography:

  • Hochschild's home page at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley
  • Who's Who in America, 62nd Edition (2008)

March 17, 2023
adam, hochschild, born, october, 1942, american, author, journalist, historian, lecturer, best, known, works, include, king, leopold, ghost, 1998, wars, story, loyalty, rebellion, 1914, 1918, 2011, bury, chains, 2005, mirror, midnight, 1990, unquiet, ghost, 19. Adam Hochschild ˈ h oʊ k ʃ ɪ l d born October 5 1942 is an American author journalist historian 1 and lecturer His best known works include King Leopold s Ghost 1998 To End All Wars A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion 1914 1918 2011 Bury the Chains 2005 The Mirror at Midnight 1990 The Unquiet Ghost 1994 and Spain in Our Hearts 2016 Adam HochschildHochschild in 2017Born 1942 10 05 October 5 1942 age 80 New York City United StatesOccupation s Writer journalistSpouseArlie Russell HochschildChildren2Parent s Mary Marquand Hochschild Harold K HochschildFamilyBerthold Hochschild grandfather Allan Marquand grandfather Signature Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2 1 Books 2 2 Journalism 3 Bibliography 3 1 Books 4 Awards 5 References 6 External linksBiography EditAdam Hochschild was born in New York City His father Harold Hochschild was of German Jewish descent his mother Mary Marquand Hochschild was a Protestant and an uncle by marriage Boris Sergievsky was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force His German born paternal grandfather Berthold Hochschild founded the mining firm American Metal Company 2 Hochschild graduated from Harvard in 1963 with a BA in History and Literature As a college student he spent a summer working on an anti government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi during 1964 Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would eventually write in his books Half the Way Home A Memoir of Father and Son and Finding the Trapdoor Essays Portraits Travels He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War and after several years as a daily newspaper reporter worked as a writer and editor for the left wing Ramparts magazine In the mid 1970s he was a co founder of Mother Jones 3 Much of his writing has been about issues of human rights and social justice A longtime lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley Hochschild has also been a Fulbright Lecturer in India Regents Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz and Writer in Residence at the Department of History University of Massachusetts Amherst 4 He is married to sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild His books have been translated into fourteen languages 5 He lives in Berkeley California 6 Works EditBooks Edit Hochschild s first book was a memoir Half the Way Home A Memoir of Father and Son 1986 in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father In The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani called the book an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love 7 In The Mirror at Midnight A South African Journey 1990 new edition 2007 he examines the tensions of modern South Africa through the prism of the nineteenth century Battle of Blood River which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world as well as looking at the contentious commemoration of the event by rival groups 150 years later at the height of the apartheid era In The Unquiet Ghost Russians Remember Stalin 8 1994 new edition 2003 Hochschild chronicles the six months he spent in Russia traveling to Siberia and the Arctic interviewing gulag survivors retired concentration camp guards former members of the secret police and countless others about Joseph Stalin s reign of terror in the country during which millions of people the actual toll will never be known died Hochschild s Finding the Trapdoor Essays Portraits Travels 9 10 11 1997 collects his personal essays and shorter pieces of reportage as does a more recent collection Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays 2018 His King Leopold s Ghost A Story of Greed Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa 1998 new edition 2006 is a history of the conquest of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium and of the atrocities that were committed under Leopold s private rule of the colony events that led to the twentieth century s first great international human rights campaign The book reignited interest and inquiry into Leopold s colonial regime in the Congo but was met by some hostility in Belgium According to The Guardian review at the time of the book s first edition the book brought howls of rage from Belgium s ageing colonials and some professional historians even as it has climbed the country s best seller lists 12 Hochschild s Bury the Chains Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire s Slaves 2005 is about the antislavery movement in Britain The story of how abolitionists organized to change the opinions of and bring greater awareness to the British public about slavery has attracted attention from contemporary climate change activists who see an analogy to their own work 13 In 2011 Hochschild published To End All Wars A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion 1914 1918 which considers the First World War in terms of the struggle between those who felt the war was a noble crusade and those who felt it was not worth the sacrifice of millions of lives His 2016 Spain in Our Hearts Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936 1939 follows a dozen characters through that conflict among them volunteer soldiers and medical workers journalists who covered the war and a little known American oilman who sold Francisco Franco most of the fuel for his military Rebel Cinderella From Rags to Riches to Radical the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes was published in 2020 and his latest American Midnight The Great War a Violent Peace and Democracy s Forgotten Crisis in 2022 Hochschild s books have been translated into fifteen languages Journalism Edit Hochschild has also written for the New Yorker Harper s Magazine The Atlantic Granta the Times Literary Supplement the New York Review of Books the New York Times Magazine and The Nation and other publications He was also a commentator on National Public Radio s All Things Considered Bibliography EditBooks Edit The Mirror at Midnight A South African Journey 1990 2007 ISBN 978 0 618 75825 8 The Unquiet Ghost Russians Remember Stalin 1994 2003 ISBN 978 0 618 25747 8 Finding the Trapdoor Essays Portraits Travels 1997 ISBN 0 8156 0594 3 King Leopold s Ghost A Story of Greed Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa 1998 2006 ISBN 978 0 618 00190 3 Bury the Chains Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire s Slaves 2005 ISBN 978 0 618 61907 8 Half the Way Home A Memoir of Father and Son Paperback ed Boston Houghton Mifflin 2005 1986 To End All Wars A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion 1914 1918 2011 ISBN 978 0 547 75031 6 Spain in Our Hearts Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936 1939 2016 ISBN 978 0 547 97318 0 Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays 2018 ISBN 978 0 520 29724 1 Rebel Cinderella From Rags to Riches to Radical the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes 2020 ISBN 978 1 328 86674 5 American Midnight The Great War a Violent Peace and Democracy s Forgotten Crisis 2022 covers the period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties Awards Edit1998 California Book Awards Gold Medal King Leopold s Ghost 1998 PEN Diamonstein Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Finding the Trapdoor 1999 Duff Cooper Prize King Leopold s Ghost 1999 Mark Lynton History Prize King Leopold s Ghost 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist King Leopold s Ghost 1999 Lionel Gelber Prize 2005 National Book Award finalist Bury the Chains 2005 California Book Awards Gold Medal Bury the Chains 2005 Lannan Literary Award for Non Fiction for the full body of his work 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History Bury the Chains 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction Bury the Chains 2006 Lionel Gelber Prize first person to have won twice 2009 Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson Prize from the American Historical Association 14 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist To End All Wars 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner To End All Wars 15 2014 elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary degrees from Curry College in Massachusetts and the University of St Andrews in Scotland References Edit Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild Retrieved November 20 2018 Gordon Mary June 15 1986 Love In Heavy Armor The New York Times Retrieved May 2 2017 Adam Hochschild Bio at Mother Jones Mother Jones The Writer in Residence Program History UMass Amherst www umass edu Adam Hochschild American Academy of Arts amp Sciences Retrieved February 18 2023 Adam Hochschild On Unlearned History Repeating Itself writersdigest com Retrieved February 18 2023 Coming to Terms June 21 1986 THE UNQUIET GHOST by Adam Hochschild Kirkus Reviews via www kirkusreviews com Finding the Trapdoor Essays Portraits Travels by Adam Hochschild publishersweekly com Retrieved February 18 2023 FINDING THE TRAPDOOR Kirkus Reviews Retrieved February 18 2023 Silverman Sue William 2000 Finding the Trapdoor Essays Portraits Travels review Fourth Genre Explorations in Nonfiction 2 1 210 212 doi 10 1353 fge 2013 0294 ISSN 1522 3868 JSTOR 41938537 Retrieved February 18 2023 The hidden holocaust the Guardian May 13 1999 Retrieved November 7 2018 Azar Christian 2007 Bury the chains and the carbon dioxide Climatic Change 85 3 4 473 5 Bibcode 2007ClCh 85 473A doi 10 1007 s10584 007 9303 y S2CID 154055686 Adam Hochschild to Receive AHA s Roosevelt Wilson Prize Perspectives on History AHA www historians org Julie Bosman September 30 2012 Winners Named for Dayton Literary Peace Prize The New York Times Retrieved September 30 2012 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adam Hochschild Appearances on C SPAN Eleanor Wachtel of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews Hochschild about his life and work Terry Gross of NPR s Fresh Air talks to Hochschild about To End All Wars about American Midnight and about Spain in Our Hearts Interview about the craft of writing Fresh Air review of Bury the Chains Video conversation with Hochschild about King Leopold s Ghost New York Times By the Book interviews HochschildBook excerpts from American Midnight from Spain in Our Hearts from To End All Wars from Bury the Chains from King Leopold s Ghost from The Unquiet Ghost from Rebel CinderellaArticles When America Tried to Deport its Radicals A Hundred Years After the Armistice How a Young Army Officer Built America s Empire of Paranoia Blood and Treasure The Brick Master of Kerala on narrative writing starting on p 45 on writing history a restorative justice pioneer at work An odd museum reckons with a violent pastAuthor biography Hochschild s home page at the Graduate School of Journalism University of California at Berkeley Who s Who in America 62nd Edition 2008 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Adam Hochschild amp oldid 1142726734, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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