This is a book club episode. In it, Travis and Amanda will discuss and analyze the second half of KING LEOPOLD’S GHOST by Adam Hochschild. You should expect full “spoilers,” discussions of rhetorical elements, and celebrations / critiques of style and substance.
From the cover: “A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold’s Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witness to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century’s first great human rights movement.”