Sammy Marks 'The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal' -- Africana

Author: Richard Mendelsohn

Publisher: David Philip & Ohio University Press, 1991, ISBN9780864861887, soft cover with protective clear cello cover, 150x230, 304 pages, incl. index

...The biography is based on an extraordinary cache of tens of thousands of personal and business letters, hidden till a few years ago in a strongroom at Marks's country house outside Pretoria. These letters reveal a Victorian husband who dominated his wife, yet allowed her an unusual degree of responsibility for family matters; an immigrant father who sent his children to public school in England to be transformed into 'gentlemen' and then agonised at long distance about their health and moral well-being; a Jew who, unlike many of his wealthy Jewish compatriots, proudly acknowledged his Jewishness yet practised a very pale Judaism; and a political éminence grise who spun a web of influence around Paul Kruger, the president of the Transvaal, yet helped to persuade the Boers to abandon their hopeless struggle against Britain in 1902.

Condition: VG, unmarked.

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