From the author of the best-selling King Leopold\'s Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest Memoir tells of Adam Hochschild \'s conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation.
But above all this is a story of a Father and his only son and of the unexpected peace finally made between them..
The author lyrically evokes his privileged childhood on an Adirondack estate, a colorful uncle who was a pioneer aviator and fighter ace, and his first explorations of the larger world he encountered as he came of age in the tumultuous 1960s.
From the author of the best-selling King Leopold\'s Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest Memoir tells of Adam Hochschild \'s conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation