Like the Pharaohs he admired, Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) hoped to be remembered for 4,000 years.
Lee and Mahatma Gandhi...
This book sheds new light on a complicated story, relates the history of the Rhodes Scholarships, and suggests common-sense rules for commemorating contested figures as diverse as Robert E.
A major figure in the British Empire, he has been the subject of a bitter international controversy.
Barely 120 years later, many people want him expunged from history altogether.
Like the Pharaohs he admired, Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902) hoped to be remembered for 4,000 years