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"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 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. With a new foreword from best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver and a new afterword, King's Leopold Gh

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Author

Hochschild, Adam

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780395759240

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

4.15 / 5 (25,849 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14