Adam Hochschild on Our Obligation to the Common Good pt. 2

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🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the second of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with one of the great non-fiction writers and historians of our time, Adam Hochschild, about his classic 1986 memoir Half The Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, the impetus for his latest book American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, and the process that Adam went through to improve his relationship with his father, and more.

Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, historian, and lecturer. He has written 11 books, including the highly regarded and influential King Leopold’s Ghost and Bury the Chains. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, Granta, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He has received many awards for his writing, including the Duff Cooper Prize and the Mark Lynton History Award for King Leopold’s Ghost, and the California Book Awards Gold Medal and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for Bury the Chains. Adam graduated from Harvard in 1963, and he holds honorary degrees from Curry College and the University of St. Andrews.

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0:11.3	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes.
0:19.1	Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.
0:26.0	And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.
0:31.0	We interview Stoke philosophers, we explore at length how these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.
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0:54.0	and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.
1:06.0	Hey, it's Ryan Holliday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast.
1:10.0	This is part two of a two part episode we talked with Adam Hosschild earlier.
1:16.0	His book, Barry the Chains about the the freeing of the slaves, the abolition movement, the ending of the slave trade.
1:22.0	Absolutely must read core idea in this Stoke principle of justice.
1:26.0	Well, most people don't know that Adam wrote a very brilliant memoir.
1:30.0	One I enjoyed quite a bit called Half the Way Home, a memoir of Father and Son.
1:34.0	And when I read it, I almost broke down in tears. It was just an absolutely beautiful book.
1:39.0	It reminded me of this great essay that Kafka wrote called Letter to the Father.
1:44.0	It's about basically a young son struggling with a sort of an overbearing stern distant father.
1:50.0	And reckoning with this, they're trying to get closer, speaking very different languages,
1:56.0	having very different experiences.
1:58.0	It's an abusive relationship by any means, but there is something, some gap that they struggle to close.
2:04.0	And it's a haunting moving memoir. I absolutely loved it.
2:08.0	So when I read that, that's when I reached out to Adam and asked if he'd want to come on the podcast
2:12.0	and talk about both those two books. And that's when he let me know that he had a third book that had just come out.
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