{"product_id":"9780358212508","title":"King Leopold's Ghost","description":"\u003cb\u003e \"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel.\" — \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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\u003ci\u003e, King Leopold’s Ghost \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book","brand":"Hochschild, Adam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (History)","offer_id":43619830890720,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/81KPONUjs8L._UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1752240332","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780358212508","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}