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Robert I. Rotberg is Academic Vice-President for Arts, Sciences, and Technology at Tufts University. A noted authority on Africa, he taught for many years at M.I.T. and Harvard. He has written numerous books about Africa, including Suffer the Future: Policy Choices in Southern Africa (1980), Black Heart: Gore-Browne and the Politics of Multiracial Zambia (1978), The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa (1965), Joseph Thomson and the Exploration of Africa (Oxford, 1971), and Protest and Power in Black Africa (Oxford, 1970). He is himself a former Rhodes Scholar.
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"...Rotberg draws an extremely detailed picture of Cecil Rhodes, which keeps the reader enthralled literally to the last word....picture the most detailed, balanced, and therefore best biography of Rhodes which we have to date."--Horst Drechsler, German Historical Institute London Bulletin
"The Founder is a major contribution to the history of the British Empire. It is equally significant as an example of responsible psychobiography, the result of a unique and fruitful collaboration between historian and psychiatrist. Last but far from least, it is a good read. Cecil Rhodes was many things, but in the hands of Rotberg and Shore he is never boring."--Richard H. Ullman, Princeton University
"A powerful read, thoroughly based in archives and in the southern African landscape.... Rotberg shares with us as complex a view of the enigma as we are ever likely to attain."--Prosser Gifford, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"Magisterial, compelling....likely to remain the definitive life of the Great Amalgamator."--Publishers Weekly
"A large book on an outsize man....captures Rhodes' ceaseless energy, his venturesomeness, his homosexuality, his carelessness with procedure, his driving vision....a powerful read, thoroughly based in archives and in the Southern African landscape....As complex a view of the enigma as we are ever likely to attain."--Prosser Gifford, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
"A particularly important contribution....Rotberg's book is essential reading for all those who seek a thorough understanding of modern South African history."--American Historical Review
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