Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild (New York, 1942) is an American writer. He is one of the cofounders of the newspaper Mother Jones .
Only sons, it grows in a medium which it described in its first book Half the Way Home: Memoir Father and Its has off, published in 1986.
After he worked, as student, in South Africa, he becomes sensitive to the injustices of racism and started to engage in the policy. He united with the movement of the civic rights , he expressed against the war of Vietnam and he found a work as journalist with the newspaper Ramparts. Later, it founds Mother Jones with two partners.
He wrote The Mirror At Midnight: South African Journey (1990) has and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997) and Phantoms of the king Léopold (1998) on the colonialism of Congo by Léopold II of Belgium. Its book Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free year Empire' S Slaves was published in 2005.
Hochschild also wrote for The New Yorker , Harper' S Magazine , The New York Review off Books , The NewYork Times Magazine , and The Nation . He was also commentator for All Things Considered of National Public Radio operator.
Hochschild lives with San Francisco and teaches off the writing with the Graduate School Journalism with the the University of California - Berkeley
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