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Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels
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Veröffentlichung: |
September 1999
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9780815605942 |
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9780815605942 |
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Syracuse University Press |
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Kartoniert |
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English
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H 223 mm / B 148 mm / D 18 mm |
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420 gr |
Seiten: |
304 |
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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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