t was said of Sir Charles Coghlan, the first Premier of Rhodesia (1924-1927), that almost every advance in the country’s political evolution during the previous 25 years had largely been the work of his hands. One Man’s Hand is his biography. Sir Charles came to Rhodesia from South Africa in 1900 and he represented Bulawayo in the Legislative Council for 19 years. To him fell the task of piloting the country on the road from Charter Company administration to a self-governing Colony within the British Commonwealth. He was considered, after Rhodes, to be the greatest Rhodesian pp.xv, 254 #020915 Volume 22 in the Rhodesiana Reprint Library