This story of how Peggy Bartels, a secretary at the Ghanian Embassy in Washington, D.C. became the king of village in Ghana made for a great read. I knew almost nothing about Ghana and learned a lot about its history and the book is made up of all kinds of characters. Anyone who enjoyed the Ladies...
Bartels was working as a secretary in the Ghanaian Embassy when she received a phone call that would change her life. The king of Otuam, a small coastal town of 7,000 people, had passed away, and the tribal elders had elected her as his replacement.Thus begins this winning tale of epic proportions, ...
New ReviewEducational gossip!Old ReviewIt is impossible not to like a book that has the line "many men were willing to lay down thier wives for their king".Totally impossible.At times funny, at times surprisingly sad, this is a good book. Herman writes about the mistresses withuot making them saint...
Silly, salacious and about as meaningful as People Magazine, this book is compulsively readable. It's well-written, engaging and pruriently interesting. It appeals to all of the same trash receptors in one's brain that fuel the National Enquirer, Star and the other weekly mags featuring vapid celebr...
My new hero is Marguerite-Louise of France, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. The Duchess found herself made to Cosimo de Medici in 1661. She didn't like him; it's easy to understand way. He was that Cosimo de Medici after all. They both had affairs. After the death of her father-in-law, Marguerite dem...
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