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Free tree debris pick up | Pacific Steel site redevelopment | BUSD reparations program, Berkeley High + Cal's relationship since 1800s

Adam Hochschild

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Early 20th-century America viewed through the life of one extraordinary woman

Avatar photo by Mal Warwick May 06, 2020, 7:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

Rose Pastor Stokes was a Russian-Jewish émigré socialist who married one of the richest men in the U.S. Together they promoted socialism – until their divorce in 1917.

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Adam Hochschild examines the Spanish Civil War

Avatar photo by Mal Warwick June 13, 2016, 7:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

A review of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, by Adam Hochschild @@@@@ (5 out of 5) A few weeks ago I read and reviewed Richard Rhodes’ Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made, which was published last year. More recently, Adam Hochschild, a […]

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Karen Paget’s ‘Patriotic Betrayal’ is a monumental work

Avatar photo by Mal Warwick March 03, 2015, 12:00 p.m.October 4, 2022

Karen M. Paget. Photo: Don Kellogg If you’re old enough, think back to the 1960s, that decade of endless turmoil and revelation. Though the CIA had been established in 1947, it wasn’t until 1962 that the agency came to the attention of most Americans, as a result of its disastrous handling of the US-backed Bay […]

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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel Nov. 09, 2012, 3:00 p.m.October 4, 2022

NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT  It seems appropriate that during after such a contested and divisive election The Actor’s Ensemble of Berkeley is performing Richard III, the classic Shakespeare tale of  “the lust for power gone berserk.” The king won’t let anyone stand in the way of his desire for the crown of England. […]

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Adam Hochschild on flour power as strategy for activists

by Guest contributor June 05, 2012, 3:00 p.m.October 4, 2022

Adam Hochschild would like to remind us that Berkeley has the fourth largest library in the country By Karen Laws The denizens of other cities can snicker all they like, but Berkeley historian Adam Hochschild has no problem with Berkeley’s foreign policy. “If the citizens of Berkeley were in charge, our country would be better off,” he […]

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Accolades for Edie Meidav and other East Bay authors

by Guest contributor May 17, 2012, 3:30 p.m.October 4, 2022

Edie Meidav, author of Lola, California, which is nominated for a Northern California Book Award By Karen Laws The East Bay Literary scene is heating up. Never before in the 31-year history of the Northern California Book Awards have the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement, plus ten nominations for book awards, all been given to East Bay writers. […]

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