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8 unusual facts about Adam Hochschild


Afonso I of Kongo

In Adam Hochschild's 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost, Hochschild characterizes Afonso as a "selective modernizer" because he welcomed European scientific innovation and the church but refused to adopt Portugal's legal code and sell land to prospectors.

Edmund Musgrave Barttelot

Adam Hochschild writes that after being left in charge of the Rear Column, Major Barttelot promptly lost his mind.

Freddy the Pig

Adam Hochschild, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (Syracuse University Press, 1997), "Paragon of Porkers: Freddy the Pig," pp.

Adam Hochschild, writing in The New York Times Book Review, describes the series as "the moral center of my childhood universe."

Jeffrey Bruce Klein

In 1977, Klein became the magazine’s second managing editor; Adam Hochschild had been the first.

John Smith Clarke

Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Leon Rom

In King Leopold's Ghost, author Adam Hochschild speculates that Rom was the inspiration for the character of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness.

USPG

Hochschild, Adam (2005) Bury the Chains, the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery.



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