Weitere Ausgaben von Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
Klappentext
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations.
Biografie
Adam Hochschild wurde 1942 in New York City geboren. Er lehrt an der Graduate School of Journalism der University of California, Berkeley. Er lebt als Autor und Journalist in San Francisco und schreibt im "New Yorker", in"Harper s Magazine", "The New York Review of Books", "The New York Times Magazine", "Mother Jones"u. a. m.§Seine Bücher wurden in fünf Sprachen übersetzt und gewannen zahlreiche Preise, u. a. den Preis des World Affairs Council und der Society of American Travel Writers.
