Adam hochschild american midnight

Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would eventually write in his books Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Sona nd Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels. 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. His German-born paternal grand father Berthold Hochschild founded the mining firm American Metal Company Hochschild graduated from Harvard in 1963 with a BA in History and Literature. 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. Adam Hochschild was born in New York City.