Adam Hochschild - Bibliography

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

A true tale of turn-of-the-century greed, avarice, and colonial violence explores the African legacy of Belgium's King Leopold, a man who conducted one of the first great genocides of the century while cultivating a reputation as a humanitarian. Reissue. (A Linden Productions' documentary, written, directed, & produced by Pippa Scott, narrated by Don Cheadle, releasing Winter 2006) (History -- General)

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Bury the Chains: Prophets And Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

Adam Hochschild

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Half The Way Home: A Memoir Of Father And Son

Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild was an antiwar activist who cofounded America's largest progressive magazine, Mother Jones. His father, Harold Hochschild, was an influential businessman and chief of a multi-national corporation.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2005, Hardcover - 1987, Softcover - 1987, 1986

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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

Adam Hochschild

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The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remeber Stalin

Adam Hochschild

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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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

In "an enthralling story, full of fascinating characters, intense drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulation, courageous truth-telling, and splendid moral fervor" ("Christian Science Monitor"), Hochschild tells the story of King Leopold of Belgium, a megalomaniac of monstrous portions. 31 photos. Map.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1998

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Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels

Adam Hochschild

"Whether you are a general reader looking to be transported to other times and places or a student trying to unlock the mysteries of how good non-fiction is written, (Finding the Trapdoor) is something rare". -- Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley For some thirty years, Adam Hochschild has been one of the most distinctive voices in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild's readers can count on an unobtrusive erudition, a sense of justice, and an irrepressible curiosity about life. Admirers of Hochschild's Half the Way Home will find in these articles the same warm autobiographical voice that made that book so memorable. Hochschild revisits a time when he was a civil rights worker in Mississippi and as a teenager seeing apartheid firsthand in South Africa. But readers will find much more as well: Profiles of an adoptive gypsy, essays about Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy, and a journey to one of the remotest corners of the Amazon rain forest. This collection gathers the best of his shorter pieces over the years, all of which first appeared in a variety of publications, including The Village Voice, Mother Jones, and the New York Review of Books.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999

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Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer

Adam Hochschild; Boris Vasilevich Sergievskii; Allan Forsyth

Boris Sergievsky's life of high adventure began when he fought as a Russian infantry officer and fighter pilot against Austria-Hungary during WWI, and against the Red Army after the Bolshevik revolution. In 1923, he came to the U.S. and joined Igor Sikorsky's airplane company as chief test pilot. Over the next ten years, Pan American Airways established routes across Latin America and the Pacific, using Sikorsky flying boats. Sergievsky tested them all and flew many of the inaugural flights. Sergievsky dictated this lively and personal memoir in 1934, when he and Charles Lindbergh were about to set eight world's records in a giant Pan American "Clipper". By then, Sergievsky had made pioneering flights across vast stretches of Latin America, carrying everything from mining machinery to boa constrictors. He flew Osa and Martin Johnson across uncharted African jungles, survived a tidal wave that smashed his flying boat in mid-ocean, and escaped a blazing crash when his airplane caught fire in midair. Through it all, his sense of humor remained intact, as did his passion for beautiful women. The editors, who knew Sergievsky well during his later years -- he was Adam Hochschild's uncle -- have written three dozen sidebars to put Sergievsky's memoir in context for today's readers, and to describe his further adventures in the next three decades. More than forty rare photographs enhance the story of Sergievsky's eventful life.

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The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin

Adam Hochschild

Stalin's rule over Russia left some 20 million people dead and, in the 35 years since his death, no one would openly write or talk about his vast self-inflicted genocide. With the advent of glasnost, journalist Hochschild explores how Russians today are healing the wounds from an avalanche of long-repressed memories. Photos.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994

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The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey

Adam Hochschild

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1990