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　　In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa,

King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly

unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a

genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized

its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten

million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a

great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes

eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the

twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the

Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the

haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man

as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean

villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought

Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young

idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly

found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings

this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara

Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far

richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief

among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went

on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero

of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a

London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington

Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the

Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of

the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph

Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire

King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's

Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto

the conscience of the West.

Introduction

Prologue: "The Traders Are Kidnapping

Our People"

PART  I: WALKING INTO  FIRE

"I Shall Not Give Up the Chase"

The Fox Crosses the Stream

The Magnificent Cake

"The Treaties Must Grant Us Everything"

From Florida to Berlin

Under theYacht Club Flag

The First Heretic

Where There Aren't No Ten Commandments

Meeting Mr. Kurtz

The Wood That Weeps

A Secret Society of Murderers

……

Index

　　Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. His first

book, HALF THE WAY HOME: A MEMOIR OF FATHER AND SON, was published

in 1986. It was followed by THE MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT: A SOUTH AFRICAN

JOURNEY (1990) and THE UNQUIET GHOST: RUSSIANS REMEMBER STALIN

(1994). FINDING THE TRAPDOOR: ESSAYS, PORTRAITS, TRAVELS won the

1998 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay.

Hochschild's books have been translated into five languages and

have won prizes from the Overseas Press Club of America, the World

Affairs Council, the Eugene V. Debs Foundation, and the Society of

American Travel Writers. Three of his books - including KING

LEOPOLD'S GHOST - have been named Notable Books of the Year by THE

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and LIBRARY JOURNAL. KING LEOPOLD'S

GHOST was also awarded the 1998 California Book Awards gold medal

for nonfiction. Hochschild has also written for THE NEW YORKER,

HARPER'S MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, THE NEW YORK TIMES

MAGAZINE, MOTHER JONES.

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　　"An enthralling story, full of fascinating characters, intense

drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulations, courageous

truth-telling, and splendid moral fervor . . .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."--Neal Ascherson (

The Los Angeles Times

)"A vivid,

novelistic narrative that makes the reader acutely aware of the

magnitude of the horror perpetrated by King Leopold and his

minions." (

The New York Times

)"Carefully researched and

vigorously told, King Leopold's Ghost does what good history always

does -- expands the memory of the human race." (

The Houston

Chronicle

)"King Leopold's Ghost is a remarkable achievement,

hugely satisfying on many levels. It overwhelmed me in the way

Heart of Darkness did when I first read it;and for precisely the

same reasons: as a revelation of the horror that had been hidden in

the Congo." -- Paul Theroux (

Paul Theroux

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