Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Adam Hochschild grew up as the only child of Harold Hochschild, head of the mining company American Metal Climax, who was fifty when his son was born and who raised him amid privilege at Eagle Nest, the family's estate in the Adirondacks. Hochschild describes a reserved, demanding father whose expectations he resisted, choosing a life as a journalist over the family business, and his long effort to understand the man and the distance between them.
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