The founder: Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power - Robert I. Rotberg, Miles F. Shore - Google Books

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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 idealist…