★★★《纽约时报》上榜图书 ★★★ 美国国家图书评论奖最终入围图书 【内容简介】 19世纪80年代，随着欧洲列强对非洲的瓜分，比利时国王利奥波德二世夺取了刚果河周围的辽阔土地。他在刚果实行种族灭绝式的掠夺、压榨，最终让这一地区的人口下降了1000万。与此同时，他却将自己塑造为一个伟大的人道主义者。 霍赫希尔德写作此书时使用了大量原始资料，向人们娓娓讲述 了利奥波德二世利欲熏心、骇人听闻的罪行。该书还用感人至深的笔触刻画了那些奋起反抗利奥波德的探险家、蒸汽船船长和军人等,虽然书中出现的非洲人自己的声音很少，但是正如作者所说，“他们的活动与声音，尽管被其征服者的记录所过滤，我们依然可以看到、听到。” 【本书获誉】 “霍赫希尔德这部巨著有力地展示了，刚果的巨大丑闻预示了我们的这个时代……这本书值得反复阅读。 ——尼尔•阿舍森，《洛杉矶时报书评》 《利奥波德国王的鬼魂》是一本不可多得的好书，在很多层次上都达到了非常令人满意的水准。第一次阅读时，它像当年《黑暗的心》那样让我震撼——而且原因也是一样的：揭露了刚果背后的那段恐怖历史。 ——保罗•泰鲁 用娓娓道来般的小说语言讲述了一段历史，让读者清楚地了解了利奥波德国王及其爪牙耸人听闻的累累罪行。 ——米基科•卡库塔尼，《纽约时报》 令人爱不释手的一本书：性格鲜明的人物、引人入胜的情节、紧张激烈的冒险、掩人耳目的阴谋、无所畏惧的真相揭露、波澜壮阔的正义热潮……一部历史作品，读起来如同小说般扣人心弦。 ——默尔•鲁宾 基于深入的调查和严谨的行文，《利奥波德国王的鬼魂》做到了一部好的历史作品可以做的一切 —— 扩展人类的历史。 ——弗里茨•拉纳姆，《休斯敦纪事报》 用引人入胜的笔触介绍了那位古怪、贪婪、残忍的君主，比利时国王利奥波德怎样建立比属刚果……一本让人掩卷难忘的书。 —— K.安东尼•阿皮亚，《纽约书评》 引人入胜，也让人觉得恐怖……这本书以介绍罪恶开篇，以颂扬良知收尾。 ——菲利普•肯尼卡特，《圣路易斯邮报》 《利奥波德国王的鬼魂》拥有引人注目的出场人物——英雄、坏蛋、小配角，他们一个个都不同凡响，神经质和野心的纠缠让作品妙趣横生，每个人都被刻画得栩栩如生。” —— 罗南•贝内特，《观察家》

Arlie Hochschild is best known for her contributions to the domestic division of labor (The Second Shift), emotional labor (The Managed Heart), the rationalization of the home (Time Bind), the commodification of private life (The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Outsourced Self). In her latest book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild takes her notion of “feeling rules” to Louisiana, exploring the emotional foundations of right wing politics (The Tea Party and support for Donald Trump) by studying divergent responses to one of the most pressing issues facing the region – environmental pollution. On the basis of her fieldwork, conducted between 2011 and 2016, Hochschild advances the “deep story” of supporters of the American right: “…the shifting moral qualifications for the American Dream had turned them into strangers in their own land, afraid, resentful, displaced, and dismissed by the very people who were, they felt, cutting in line.”

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.