Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Mc Phee 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 CI a had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist the knowledge of a historian and the heart of an activist Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance and dared to dream of a better and more just world.
Title: Lessons From A Dark Time And Other Essays
Author(s): Hochschild Adam
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520355644
Pages: 296 Pages, 7 B-W Images
Publication Date: 4/7/2020
Category: Publishing Industry & Book Trade