A hundred years after his death, Rhodes continues to live in the form of memorials and statues, a university that bears his name, a prestigious scholarship. Rhodes features in novels, on stage, in film. He is subject of over 50 biographies and numerous articles. How did Cecil Rhodes whose very average intellectual abilities, crude racism and dubious business practices should exclude him from the ranks of the great achieve such status? The Cult of Rhodes takes a critical look at this paradox examining among other issues the surprising silence from Afrikaners and Africans in Rhodes historiography and the ambiguous attitude towards Rhodes in the country that was once named after him. Index, bib, notes, b/w photos, 184pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

A critical biography of the 'war hero, writer, explorer, mystic, environmentalist, Jungian, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and friend and confidant of the great - famously including Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles'. Notes, bib, index, 34 b/w photos, xvii, 595pp. UK. John Murray, 0719555809