{"product_id":"king-leopolds-ghost-a-story-of-greed-terror-and-heroism","title":"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism","description":"\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0358212502\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hochschild, Adam\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e new\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eThe 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 ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New York Times Notable BookIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n        ","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49676592709872,"sku":"NEW0358212502","price":15.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/king-leopolds-ghost-a-story-of-greed-terror-and-heroism","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}