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Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as
he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and
independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he
fought with the Allies against the Axis powers during World War II
and was a messianic figure for the Jamaican Rastafarians. But the
final years of his empire saw turmoil and revolution, and he was
ultimately overthrown and assassinated in a communist coup. Written
by Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Haile Selassie s grandnephew, this is the
first major biography on this final king of kings. Asserate, who
spent his childhood and adolescence in Ethiopia before fleeing the
revolution of 1974, knew Selassie personally and gained intimate
insights into life at the imperial court. Introducing him as a
reformer and an autocrat whose personal history with all of its
upheavals, promises, and horrors reflects in many ways the history
of the twentieth century itself, Asserate uses his own experiences
and painstaking research in family and public archives to achieve a
colorful and even-handed portrait of the emperor."
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