![]() As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi during 1964. Hochschild graduated from Harvard in 1963 with a BA in History and Literature. His German-born paternal grandfather Berthold Hochschild founded the mining firm American Metal Company His father, Harold Hochschild, was of German Jewish descent his mother, Mary Marquand Hochschild, was a Protestant, and an uncle by marriage, Boris Sergievsky, was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force. Never was the raw underside of our nation’s life more revealingly on display during this critical time in our nation’s history and is all but forgotten even though there are so many parallels to the events of today.Īdam Hochschild was born in New York City. ![]() This most important book examines the period from 1917-1921, when the toxic undercurrents of racism, nativism, Red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law flowed throughout American life. ![]() ![]() Join Michael in his discussion with Adam Hochschild about his new book, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis. ![]()
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