{"product_id":"9780358212508","title":"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa","description":"At the turn of the century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a genocidal 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\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e is the \"absorbing and horrifying account\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. 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 but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century's first great human rights movement.","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958792442096,"sku":"9780358212508","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780358212508_p0.jpg?v=1763688831","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780358212508","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}