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Hammond (John Hays)

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE JAMESON RAID

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Published: Marshall Jones Company, Boston, 1918

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50 pages, blue cloth with white title label pasted on upper cover and spine, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

From the dust jacket: This volume contains the first complete American account of an event which plunged the whole civilized world into a state of intense excitement, and, through the indiscretion of the Kaiser, exposed for a single dramatic moment the true inwardness of Germany's political aims.

First published in the North American Review August and September 1918.

John Hays Hammond (31 March 1855 – 8 June 1936) was a mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. Known as the man with the Midas touch, he amassed a sizeable fortune before the age of 40. An early advocate of deep mining, Hammond was given complete charge of Cecil Rhodes' mines in South Africa and made each undertaking a financial success. But after the dismal failure of the Jameson Raid, Hammond, along with the other leaders of the Johannesburg Reform Committee, was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death. The Reform Committee leaders were released after paying large fines, but like many of the leaders, Hammond left Africa for good. He returned to the United States, became a close friend of President William Howard Taft, and was appointed a special United States Ambassador. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hays_Hammond

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