King Leopold's Ghost: A story of greed, terror and herois - Brossura

Hochschild, Adam

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330492330 ISBN 13: 9780330492331

Casa editrice: Pan Books, 2002

Riassunto

WINNER OF THE 1999 DUFF COOPER PRIZE. 'A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker's platforms around the US and Europe. One open letter to The Times was signed by 11 peers, 19 bishops and 75 MPs. Viscount Grey, Britain's foreign secretary, declared that no overseas issue had so intensely aroused the British public for 30 years. Conan Doyle wrote a pamphlet on the Congo atrocities which sold 25,000 copies in the first week alone. Yet today not one person in a thousand could say what the fuss was all about, unless, of course, they have read this amazing book.' Tariq Ali, Financial Times 'Fascinating ... brilliant and gripping' Mail on Sunday 'An exemplary piece of history writing: urgent, vivid and compelling' Literary Review 'Brilliant .. this book must be read and re-read' Neal Ascherson

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Descrizione del libro:

A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes.

L'autore:

Adam Hochschild’s 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 Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold’s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in Britain, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. His most recent book, To End All Wars: a Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by Macmillan in 2011 and is also available as a Pan paperback. His books have been translated into twelve languages.

Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one grandchild.

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• Editore: Pan Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330492330
• ISBN 13: 9780330492331
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384