Review: The Emperor
User Review - Andrew - GoodreadsI suppose the American frame of reference for The Emperor is probably the "new journalism" stuff from the '60s-- Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, all that. So I liked all those guys a grip ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Khristopher - GoodreadsI was actually displeased with this book, even though I had read Mr. Kapuscinski's "The Soccer War" previously. This was a 302-page tale of how an Ethiopian emperor fell from power and the military ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor (Penguin Modern Classics)
User Review - Graeme - GoodreadsCertainly one of the more fascinating books I've ever read, for a number of reasons. There's all that Rastafarian hoopla surrounding Haile Selassie that I wanted to find out more about. Was he the ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Ian Kemp - GoodreadsTo most Westerners as well as deluded Rastafarians, Haile Selassie was a humane, gentle, enlightened leader of an unfortunate nation. To those close to him, he was an iron-fisted despot, who ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Rahul Vaidya - GoodreadsWhat a book. Never had seen history made so interesting. The book is about the last days of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie who had made a very good impression on the international scene that for ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Sam - GoodreadsA little lesson in the blurred lines between reportage and fiction - a "detailed account" of the fall of Haile Sellasie given by the ministers and servants who once waited upon him. Not, of course ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - GoodreadsSalman Rushdie wrote about him: "One Kapuściński is worth more than a thousand whimpering and fantasizing scribblers. His exceptional combination of journalism and art allows us to feel so close to what Kapuściński calls the inexpressible true image of war".
Review: The Emperor
User Review - TheBookManiac - GoodreadsA Backstage Pass to Haile Selassie's Palace This is the first work by Ryszard Kapuscinski that I read and it will certainly not be the last. The Emperor gives us a backstage pass to the palace of ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Ross Perlin - GoodreadsWritten in a shimmering, exemplary style, this nearly factless picture of Haile Selassie's later years and dethronement by a military coup strides the border between journalism and fiction. It was ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Tina - GoodreadsThis book is about the Emperor of Ethopia and his eventual removal from the throne. The book is told through the stories of his loyal servants. It is fascinating to learn how eccentric the Emperor was ... Read full review
