A Glimpse of Greatness

The book is about the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, a remarkable person who with skill, commitment, and wisdom laid the foundations for Ethiopia's development. The book focuses on the person of Haile Selassie rather than his achievements as a statesman and the adroit politician about whom a lot has been written. His leadership skills, his religious devotion, his humor, sensitivities, his bias for education and the educated, his humanism- are reflected through unvarnished narration of some episodes and interactions of the Emperor with young and old, his officials, and petitioners.