{"product_id":"the-thoughts-of-general-smuts-p-b-blanckenberg","title":"The Thoughts of General Smuts – P.B. Blanckenberg","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe Thoughts of General Smuts – P.B. Blanckenberg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe Thoughts of General Smuts (Very Good Post-WWII Hardcover Copy)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Intimate Insight into the Philosophy, Holism, and Statesmanship of Oubaas Smuts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e The Thoughts of General Smuts\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e P.B. Blanckenberg (Compiled by his private secretary)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e Juta \u0026amp; Co., Limited, Cape Town \/ Johannesburg\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e 1951 (November, First Edition)\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e None Issued (Pre-dates the standard adoption of ISBNs).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e First Edition, Standard Hardcover Release.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e Original publisher's premium full cloth boards with gilt-stamped spine lettering, issued with a protective dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e Octavo (8vo), featuring a frontispiece photographic portrait of Field Marshal Smuts.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e English\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe Book: Very Good (VG)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"circle\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e The original blue cloth boards are exceptionally flat, firm, and bright. The spine is completely unbroken and crisp, with bright, unfaded gilt lettering.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eInterior:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e The text block is robustly bound, tight, and completely clean. Internal pages are unmarred by text highlighting, dealer markings, or dog-ears. Faint, natural age-toning entirely appropriate for a 1951 paper stock.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThe Dust Jacket: Very Good Minus (VG-)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"circle\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo2; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eCondition Details:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e The original, highly fragile 1951 dust jacket is now fully preserved and enclosed in a new, archival plastic cover. The jacket displays light edge wear and a small amount of clean paper loss at the spine crown and foot. Color panels remain bright and unsoiled.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003ePublished just one year after the death of Field Marshal Jan Smuts, \u003ci\u003eThe Thoughts of General Smuts\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable collection compiled by P.B. Blanckenberg, who served closely as Smuts' private secretary. This work bypasses standard battlefield reports to focus entirely on Smuts' brilliant intellect. It aggregates his personal writings, letters, and speeches covering his unique philosophical concept of \u003ci\u003eHolism\u003c\/i\u003e, his views on international diplomacy, the formation of the League of Nations and the UN, and his private reflections on the future of the African continent. It offers an unmatched, intimate look into one of the 20th century's most complex minds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eAuthor Profile: P.B. Blanckenberg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Aptos',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eP.B. Blanckenberg was a trusted confidant and private secretary to Jan Smuts during some of the statesman's most challenging political years. His unique access allowed him to preserve the private philosophies and off-the-record wisdom of the global leader.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Juta \u0026amp; Co., Limited, Cape Town \/ Johannesburg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58291485475119,"sku":"The Thoughts of General Smuts – P.B. Blanckenberg","price":350.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/5524\/4438\/files\/The_Thoughts_of_General_Smuts.__226__YmdKTrr3n.avif?v=1786030873","url":"https:\/\/timeless-collectible-books.com\/products\/the-thoughts-of-general-smuts-p-b-blanckenberg","provider":"Timeless Collectible Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}