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"My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering" by Martha Hodes

By Joe Donahue

Published July 3, 2023 at 11:33 AM EDT

Book cover for "My Hijacking" by Martha Hodes

"My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering" is a memoir from historian Martha Hodes. In the new book, she offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked in 1970.

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