Adam Hochschild (born 1942) is an American writer. This article is about the year. ...

Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa, a politically pivotal experience about which he would later write. He subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964, 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 leftwing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones. Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... Petty apartheid: sign on Durban beach in English, Afrikaans and Zulu Apartheid (literally apartness in Afrikaans and Dutch) was a system of racial segregation that was enforced in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) United States of America South Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Peoples Republic of China Strength ~1,200,000 (1968) ~520,000 (1968) Casualties South Vietnamese dead: 230... Ramparts was an American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975. ... Mother Jones is an independent, nonprofit magazine rooted in progressive political values and known for its investigative reporting. ...

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. His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost (1998), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II. King Leopold's Ghost won the Duff Cooper Prize in Britain and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Hochschild's Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, published in 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Both of his last two books have won the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards, and Bury the Chains won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Hochschild's books have been translated into twelve languages. He is the first person to have twice won Canada's Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book on international affairs published in English. In 2005, he was the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Non-Fiction. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... King Leopold II (April 9, 1835 – December 17, 1909), succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 as Leopold II, King of the Belgians, and remained king until his death. ... The Duff Cooper Prize is a prize which goes to the best work of history, biography, or political science published in English or French. ... The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... The National Book Award is one of the most important literary prizes in the United States, presented annually for the best books by living U.S. citizens published in the U.S. The awards have been presented since 1950 in at least one category, and are presently awarded in each... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ...

Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. A 2004 cover with dandy Eustace Tilly, who debuted on the first cover and reappears on anniversary issues. ... An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, and the arts. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYREV) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ... The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... This article is about the U.S publication. ... NPR logo NPR redirects here. ...

Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. Flag Seal Nickname: The City by the Bay; The City That Knows How; Golden Mountain (historic Chinese name) Location Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: , Government City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Geographical characteristics Area     City 600. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... Arlie Russell Hochschild is professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley. ...

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Pieces from Finding the Trapdoor:

“Two Russians”

“A Gypsy for Our Time”

“Fishhooks and Chickens”

"Aristocratic Revolutionary"

An excerpt from Bury the Chains

New edition afterword from King Leopold’s Ghost

Articles:

from The New York Review of Books

from Granta

from Mother Jones