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King of Kings Asserate Asfa-Wossen Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. But the final years of his empire saw turmoil and revolution, and he was…
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King of Kings Asserate Asfa-Wossen
Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. 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 of 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. 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.
Introducing him as a reformer and an autocrat whose personal history--with all of its upheavals, promises, and horrors--reflects
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