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 Someone
of Value - A Biography of Robert Ruark
Hugh Foster
Price
$54.95 HB
Large format 7x10 inches.
316 pages.
43 photographs from private collections, various individuals and the
University of North Carolina archives.
 Africa
has a genius for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems
simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of
apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere is there a
continent more miserable.” TIME Magazine Sept. 7, 1992.
Through ten major books (including Uhuru, Poor No More, The Old Man and the
Boy, Horn of the Hunter) and thousands of newspaper columns, Bob Ruark was
known to millions around the world. In his relatively short lifetime, Ruark
grew from “the old man’s boy” to become a warrior, columnist, novelist, one
of America’s best investigative reporters and a big game hunter. He said,
“There are worse memorials to a great life than a book or a tusk.”
After Ruark’s premature death (his greatest pleasures in life were drinking
and making love and he couldn’t give up drinking) this intensely interesting
and complicated man did not pass into oblivion. His popular novels were
often reprinted. But his newspaper columns, which so often and so accurately
predicted what would happen in Africa when European powers engineered
independence for their colonies were completely overlooked. Very simply, he
stated that “When you change a man’s way of life you had better have
something of value with which to replace it.”
Between 1952 and 1958 Ruark traveled extensively through Africa. He came to
know its problems and passions better than most. He was both angered and
saddened by what he saw. And this belt-level journalist, a man always living
at risk, told his millions of readers that there would be no simple
solutions when the winds of change swept through Africa and the world.
Although he was beset with his own personal problems, Ruark was able to see
the world best when he was hidden away in some obscure part of it. IN the
end, this old man was “all wore out.” But, during his lifetime he was indeed
somewhat of a visionary.
Hugh Foster is well qualified to write this exciting biography. After
serving in the international banking division of a major bank, he was
appointed by Ronald Reagan to the InterAmerican Development Bank and
subsequently to the Board of Directors of the World Bank. During these years
at the World Bank, Foster started work on his biography. Two trips to East
Africa, hundreds of hours of interviews with friends and associates of Ruark
and detailed analysis of Ruark’s correspondence and published information
make this an informative, insightful and exciting biography as well as a
look at a man and a continent both fighting for existence.
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