Lessons from a dark time : and other essays

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"This book collects some two dozen pieces from bestselling author Adam Hochschild, written over the past 25 years. All have been published before, most in the New York Review of Books but also in the New Yorker, Harper's, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. They are a mixture of essays about books, authors, one film, and the writing of history and on-the-ground journalism based on reporting from India, Africa, and elsewhere"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780520297241

Description:

ix, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Lessons from a dark time and other essays

Contents:

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

LCCN:

2018009384

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2647451

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