Title: The cunning manipulator
Product review: Any reader will be able to tell what horrified me. What fascinated me was the description of Leopold II's cunning manipulation of his own image. He bamboozled diplomats, most journalists, and the public in Europe and the U.S. His downfall (not that he really had much of one) or rather the downfall of his reputation came from a few journalists some Protestant missionaries. Hochschild bluntly points out that the Belgians in WW I managed to generate stories of German atrocities commited against them that largely never happened but were precisely what they had inflicted on the Congolese. Do I have a complaint? Yes , I would like more photographs (and the ones in the poorl bound edition I have are falling out).
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