Nor did they like his astounding knack for amassing a vast personal fortune while managing, very efficiently, the affairs of state.
Many disliked the fact that the man was allowed to pile up his riches.
While Plotz is right that the number of challenges remaining seems to be decreasing--it could hardly increase--I find it almost impossible to believe that previous record-setters were driven by the kind of practical, commercial concerns that Plotz ascribes to Ferdinand Magellan and Dick Rutan.