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The Last Empire
De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
Author: Stefan Kanfer
The Last Empire
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"Timely corporate history--as exciting and poignant as any good tale of derring-do against great odds by all-too-flawed giants. " - Kirkus Reviews
With a scholar's precision and a novelist's eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines - from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beer's humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers' shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374524265