"Ms Holland exposes another side of the man who is now regarded largely as a monster: his devoted marriage to his first wife, Sally, who was Ghanaian; his friendship with Lord Soames, Rhodesia's last British governor; the respectful and frank relationship he developed with Denis Norman, a white farmer who held several portfolios in his early governments. Most impressive was the magnanimous attitude he showed the Rhodesian ruler Ian Smith—who had sent him to prison for a decade and refused to let him travel to Ghana to attend his son's funeral—who was allowed to live on in Zimbabwe after he lost power."