Finding the Trapdoor : Essays, Portraits, Travels Paperback / softback
by Adam Hochschild
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/1999
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- ISBN:9780815605942
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Syracuse University Press
- Publication Date:30/09/1999
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- ISBN:9780815605942