Credit... Jillian Tamaki. We can survive Trump.For the body of his work, he has received numerous awards, including from the Lannan Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
He is the author of 10 books, including King Leopold’s Ghost ,To End All Wars, and his most recent, called an “exce
But perhaps the most fascinating portrait of all is of the profligate Duke of Clarence, an intemperate, boorish womanizer and a foe of the antislavery movement, who to the movement's consternation, became King William IV in 1830. in history and literature, he set out for worlds different than his own. His books have been translated into 15 Seeing--or making--my grandchildren laugh.Join us in conversation with this gifted historian whose hindsight might provide us with the foresight to restore the threatened values of justice, peace, and compassion. The advantage of being a writer, he said, is that “unlike those in other lines of work, from ballerinas to quarterbacks, you never have to retire.” Hochschild is already deep into his next book. After beginning his career as a reporter for California daily newspapers, he spent ten years as a magazine editor, most of it atThe subjects he has written about include some of the darkest of human history—like Stalin’s death camps, or a forgotten Holocaust in the Congo—yet Hochschild’s spirit remains light, steady, and quietly assured. From the outside, his childhood, which he wrote about in a memoir, They were always facing very discouraging moments. At 77, he shows no signs of slowing down.
The war with Napolean's France entirely stalled efforts year after year as the two global superpowers of the day battled for economic advantage ("war fever is always the enemy of social reform," Hochschild notes).Other central figures were Olaudah Equiano, a former slave whose influential memoir was a bestseller of the day; the eccentric gadfly Granville Sharp, who invented a harp with a double row of strings, played in a family orchestra that sailed around England on a barge and brought a host of not-so-frivolous lawsuits against miscreant slave owners and slave-ship captains; and William Wilberforce, the era's most famous orator, a conservative member of Parliament who was persuaded to adopt the progressive antislavery cause, and through the purposeful re-editing of history by his two powerful sons was for years considered the most important personality in the movement. Adam Hochschild has the rare ability to take seemingly dull, dry or depressing events of history and turn them into a riveting narrative that both deepens a reader's understanding of the past and directly connects that past to the present. Nor would I have much fun writing them.
the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley
Kristin Hannah has known for 20 years that she wanted to write a book set in... With the skill of a journalist, the eye of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Adam Hochschild has been a leading voice on human rights issues for the past 40 years. "The long effort to ban slavery was not one steady upward climb to victory. Hochschild did this in his critically acclaimed 1998 The problem was, the legend was not quite true. He also teaches nonfiction book-writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. It wasn't until Newton was approached by a man named Thomas Clarkson that he lent his considerable prestige to the antislavery movement.
To stay updated about guest announcements, fresh content, and other inspiring tidbits, subscribe below and we'll send you a weekly email.Perhaps these were the seeds for his life calling to examine the roots of injustice. After graduating from Harvard with a B.A. I think of myself as writing about people who tried to make the world better.”Born in NYC in 1942, Hochschild was the only and long awaited child of older parents. He Has Proof. The themes in Hochschild’s books explore the timeless struggle of good versus evil in the hopes of creating a better world.