King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Hochschild, Adam

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

$19.99

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

$19.99
Author: Adam Hochschild
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver

"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor

"As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New York Times Notable Book

In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area's population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold's Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century's first great human rights movement.



Author: Adam Hochschild
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780358212508

About the Author
ADAM HOCHSCHILD is the best-selling author of seven books. King Leopold's Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as was his recent To End All Wars. Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN Center USA Literary Award.

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