PROGRAM

Roosevelt House welcomes Adam Hochschild to discuss his newest bestseller, a history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and less-familiar figures, to recount the idealism and suffering of a cause that failed. For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Hochschild is the author of the prize-winning King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, and other acclaimed books, and The Los Angeles Times praised Spain in Our Hearts as a “long-overdue book that explores this long-overlooked conflict.”

July 2016 will mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the war.

Adam Hochschild  

Adam Hochschild is a cofounder of Mother Jones. His previous books include To End All Wars and King Leopold’s Ghost.




Adam Hochschild – “Spain in Our Hearts. Americans in the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939” | Posted on May 20th, 2016 | Book Discussions, Public Programs