Friends of Princeton University Library Small Talk with Adam Hochschild: “When Democracy Was Threatened a Century Ago”
The Friends of Princeton University Library welcome award-winning author and legendary historian Adam Hochschild for their first Small Talk of the 2023-24 academic year. Hochschild will give an illustrated lecture based on his latest book, “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis.”
“American Midnight,” a national bestseller, is a “‘masterly’ (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threatened by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor.”
(photo credit: Barbi Reed)
We welcome current Friends of PUL members to attend in person. A reception will follow the live talk.
The presentation will also be available by Zoom.
Please select the appropriate registration type below.
- Date:
- Wednesday, September 6, 2023
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- Center for Modern Aging (formerly PSRC), 101 Poor Farm Road, Princeton, NJ 08540
- Audience:
- First-Year Graduate Students Friends of Princeton University Library Independent Scholar / Outside Researcher Member of the Public Princeton Alumni Princeton Faculty/Researcher Princeton Staff Princeton Student Student Friends of Princeton University Library
- Categories:
- Friends of the Princeton University Library Event
Adam Hochschild writes frequently about issues of human rights and social justice. The latest of his eleven books is “American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.” “King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa” was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as was “To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918.” His “Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves” won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN USA Literary Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is a three-time winner of the Gold Medal for Nonfiction of the California Book Awards. He has also written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the Nation, and many other magazines, and teaches at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
This event is part of the Friends of the Princeton University Library Small Talks Series.
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