The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds, and the World
Timely corporate historyas exciting and poignant as any good tale of derringdo against great odds by alltooflawed giants. Kirkus ReviewsWith a scholars precision and a novelists eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beers humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.
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Timely corporate historyas exciting and poignant as any good tale of derringdo against great odds by alltooflawed giants. Kirkus ReviewsWith a scholars precision and a novelists eye, Stefan Kanfer tells the inside story of De Beers Consolidated Mines from the nineteenth century diamond rush that transformed Johannes De Beers humble South African farm into an exotic klondike, to the Oppenheimers shadow empire that has achieved umatched global reach.
