"An enthralling Story .
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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. . .
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 . . . "An enthralling Story