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Biography to me is an opportunity to compare myself to the subject of the biography. There are parallels and vast distances but always the trail can be followed.
Robert Clive was a upper middle class boy born to a family of influence.

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He did not conform to expectations in his early life and some biographers indicate that as a youth he was a thug and headed a gang that extorted money from shop keepers, his father wanted rid of this troublemaker and got for him a position with the East India Company as a clerk in faraway India.
Clive’s abrupt transition from the comfort of home in England to the harsh reality of the heat and poverty of India caused him great discomfort; it’s called cultural shock!

This reader had the same experience when doing a 90-day assignment in Libera, on the west coast of Africa; Harvey’s narrative resonated with me. The shock threw me for a loop, so I had empathy for Clive, the deference was he ha