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The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power / Robert I. Rotberg, with the collaboration of Miles F. Shore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rotberg, Robert I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhodes, Cecil, 1853-1902.
- Rhodes, Cecil.
- Statesmen--Africa, Southern--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Capitalists and financiers--Africa, Southern--Biography.
- Capitalists and financiers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 800 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A tall, robust-looking, imposing figure, Cecil John Rhodes was a man of many contradictions. Rhodes, the dreamy idealist, called his copy of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius his "most precious possession," while Rhodes, the ruthless businessman, firmly believed in the adage, "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial laws in South Africa, and invented and sponsored the world-renowned Rhodes Scholarships. Although a man of unprepossessing intellectual talents, he became one of the leading figures in the English-speaking world, the confidant of Queen Victoria.
- Contents:
- Cover; "The Grandest Opportunities": A Preface; Contents; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; 1 "Like the Sun on a Granite Hill": The Man and the Mystery; 2 "A Very Bright Little Boy": Life in the Vicarage; 3 "I Am in Charge Here": The Cotton Fields, a Testing; 4 "Digging, Sifting, and Sorting from Morning till Night": Scraping Together the First Riches; 5 "I Think You Will Do": A Band of Brothers amid the Dreaming Spires; 6 "The Richest Community in the World": Pursuing Position and Fortune; 7 "I Don't Have Many Principles": Forging Political and Personal Alliances
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987920-6
- 1-283-12124-7
- 9786613121240
- 0-19-977034-4
- OCLC:
- 935272163
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