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Lessons from a dark time : and other essays / Adam Hochschild.

by Hochschild, Adam.

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University of California Press, 2018.

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

Political ethics.

9780520297241 (hc.)

ix, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- Lessons from a dark time -- Students as spies -- Hoover's secret empire -- The father of American surveillance -- Prison madness -- The listening house -- All that glitters -- A showman in the rainforest -- Heart of Darkness : fiction or reportage? -- On the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela -- India's American imports -- Palm trees and paradoxes -- The brick master -- The impossible city -- Our night with its stars askew -- Shortstops in Siberia -- A homage to homage -- On which continent was the Holocaust born? -- Sunday school history -- Pilot on the great river : Mark Twain's nonfiction -- A literary engineer -- A nation of guns -- The continent of words -- You never know what's going to happen yesterday -- Practicing history without a license -- On the road again -- Books and our souls.

"In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world."--From publisher.

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