>The only person I'd ever heard of being from a well-to-do background
>was... hmmm.... I was at SU's retreat up near Blue Mountain Lake
>where the Hochschild's was it (?) had some property... We were on
>the obligatory tour of the way the Adirondacks had been used as a
>retreat by the elite escaping NYC and someone mentioned the
>Hochschilds or maybe it was Arlie's family. Pugliese? Anyone else
>familiar with left pedigrees help me out here?
Adam Hochschild. From what I've heard, Blue Mountain is an excellent place for a retreat. Here's a bio.
Doug
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Hochschild>
Adam Hochschild (born 1942) is an American writer.
Hochschild was born in New York City as the only child of Harold Hochschild, a mining company executive. As a teenager, Hochschild visited South Africa and became aware to the injustices of racism. He subsequently become active politically, joining the civil-rights movement, demonstrating against the Vietnam War, and working as a reporter for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. Subsequently he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.
Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. His later books were The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels, and King Leopold's Ghost (1998), a book about the colonization of the Congo by Belgium's Leopold II of Belgium. His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, to be published in January 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire. His books have been translated into twelve languages.
Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.