Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels
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For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild's voice has been one of the most distinctive 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: A Memoir of Father and Son will find in these articles the same warm autobiographical voice that made that book so memorable: He revisits his time as a civil rights worker in Mississippi, as a New England prep school student, and as a teenager seeing apartheid firsthand in South Africa. But readers will find much more as well: profiles of an adoptive Gypsy and of a governor general's son turned revolutionary, essays about Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy, a journey to one of the most remote corners of the Amazon rain forest, and a remarkable evocation of two of Hochschild's personal heroes--who, in hillside trenches at the height of the Russian Civil War, faced each other across a battlefield.Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0815604475
ISBN13:9780815604471
Release Date:April 1997
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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