American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
history · First published 2022
Author guide
Adam Hochschild Books in Order
Adam Hochschild is an American historian, journalist, lecturer, and author of narrative nonfiction. He co-founded Mother Jones magazine and has written for publications including The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. His books range from memoir and essay collections to histories of South Africa, Stalinist Russia, colonial Congo, abolitionism, the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, American radicalism, and democracy. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and has received major honors including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, and fellowships and awards recognizing his body of work.
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Adam Hochschild's Newest Book
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Start with one of these
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
The most widely recognized introduction to Hochschild's narrative history and his central concerns with colonialism, exploitation, and human rights.
Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
The chronological starting point and his foundational memoir.
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
A recent, representative work that brings together his interests in war, repression, political movements, and democracy.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (1)
- The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey
nonfiction · 1990
Nonfiction (8)
- Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
memoir · 1986
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. The author lyrically…
- The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin
history · 1994
- King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
history · 1998
WINNER OF THE 1999 DUFF COOPER PRIZE. 'Brilliant .. this book must be read and re-read' Neal Ascherson'. 'A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead.…
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
history · 2005
An account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue…
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
history · 2011
- Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
history · 2016
For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and…
Essays and speeches (2)
- Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels
essay-collection · 1997
- Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
essay-collection · 2018
