In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen Essays and pieces of reporting from his long career.
He has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and is a two-Time recipient of the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards..
He has been a finalist twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and once for the National Book Award.
His books include the bestselling King Leopold\'s Ghost.
About the Author: Adam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social justice.
With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world.
Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John Mc Phee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations.
The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela.
Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it.
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen Essays and pieces of reporting from his long career
