The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

by Robert I. Rotberg

Book Overview

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 idealist whose favorite book was The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and a ruthless businessman whose guiding principle was "every man has his price." He supported invidious racial laws in South Africa, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195049683
• ISBN13: 9780195049688
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 854 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"