King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild - 1999: A Story Of Greed, Terror, And Heroism In Colonial Africa

Boston: A Mariner Book. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Stated First Mariner Books Edition . Wraps. Good. " makes the reader acutely aware of the magnitude of the horror perpetrated by King Leopold and his minions " - review - that makes one re-configure the depths of abject greed and cruelty towards his fellow-man almost inconceivable, and the sinister deceptiveness he is capable of, like putting heads on severed poles for proud display, gathering severed hands of victims for financial purposes, all for profiting from the ivory and rubber industries through slave labor under the quise of humanitarian and civlizing rationalizations. The events following this over 125 year old low-point in human history only make for profound sadness and outrage......Authored by author-journalist , Adan Hochschild; his book rejected by many U.S. publishers, initially . With 16 captioned, B&W, graphic photographs ads, caricatures of this heinous episode in history. With Introduction. Prologue. In Two Parts : ( 1 ) Walking Into Fire ( In Eleven Chapters ).... ( 2 ) A King At Bay ( Chapters 12 - 19 ) . Notes. Bibliography. Index. Softcover book (5 7/8 X 7/8 X 1 ) 367 pages.

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