Finding the trapdoor : essays, portraits, travels / Adam Hochschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochschild, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--20th century--Moral and ethical aspects.

Political ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Dedication

About Author

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue

Finding the Trapdoor

One Gypsies, Russians, and Other Heroes

1 A Gypsy for Our Time

2 Aristocratic Revolutionary

3 Broad Jumper in the Alps

4 Two Russians

5 From Hitler to Human Rights

6 Keep Up Pressure in All Directions

Two To the Navel of the World and Other Journeys

7 World on a Hilltop

8 Summer of Violence

9 We Are Not in Switzerland

10 Isle of Flowers, House of Slaves

11 Empire's End

12 The Grand Bargain in South Africa

13 Fishhooks and Chickens

Three War and Other Literary Pleasures

14 Paragon of Porkers

15 Magic Journalism

16 The Pleasures of War

17 Hemingway

18 The Private Volcano of Malcolm Lowry

19 JFK

20 Remembrance of Africa's Past

21 Sex Books, Then and Now.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8156-0405-X

OCLC:

1016999301