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They were planning to build a model African city with an American Foundation's money and a commitment to participatory democracy. How, then, did the project slip towards disaster? Peter Marris delves into the naivety, manipulation and duplicity which combine to thwart the planners' best intentions. "The Dreams of General Jerusalem" explores the interweaving of power, idealism and ambition in a new African nation. The book is a portrayal of people under stress, of guilt, love and superstition. The author is Professor of Social Planning in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA. He has worked for several years in Kenya and this is his first novel.
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Informed and convincing, this first novel by an urban planner expert in African affairs pinpoints the tragedy of big-power interference in Third World politics. Three men, none of them self-serving, believe that their plan to build a resort hotel in a small unnamed African state will rescue the country from poverty and factionalism. The plan, proposed by Peter Petterson, factotum of a New York-based foundation, to George Eaton, former district officer, and Wallace Munene, a black career politician and George's long-time friend, requires removing squatters from the area called Racecoursetown, housing them in a less picture-postcard quarter, at the same time providing them with jobs. The three, however, reckoned without the eponymous General, whose spiritual leadership sustains the poor and causes them to revolt. In the course of negotiation--that eventually includes murder--Eaton falls in love with Munene's white English wife. While the lovemaking is an unwelcome distraction, the book succeeds resoundingly in its examination of the motives of even well-meaning men.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Pub Ltd
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0747501521
- ISBN 13 9780747501527
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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