Website : Adam Hochschild at UC Berkeley
Adam Hochschild's first book, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey (1990) and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994). His King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) won a J. Anthony Lukas award in the United States and the Duff Cooper Prize in England. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, a history of the British antislavery movement published in 2005, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
For the body of his work, he has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hochschild's To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (2011) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, Granta, and other publications and was one of the cofounders of Mother Jones magazine. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company
From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled...
Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia who had worked in cigar factories since the age of eleven. Two years later, she captured headlines across the globe when she married James...
For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and...
World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Over four long years, nations around the globe were sucked into the tempest, and millions of men died on the battlefields. To this day, the war stands as one of history s most senseless spasms...
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History
A National Book Award Finalist
A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller
In early 1787, twelve men--a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery--came together in a London...
