The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power by Robert I. Rotberg

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

Robert I. Rotberg

854 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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Cecil Rhodes was an imposing figure, tall, robust-looking, with a leonine head, a man so charismatic that one contemporary claimed that "belief in Rhodes was a substitute for religion." But he was certainly a man of contradictions. He was a dreamy...

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