Screen LibraryYoung Mandela : the revolutionary years /
Nelson Mandela is well known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman, the gray haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South...
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Back Bay Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2010 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Back Bay paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
Nelson Mandela is well known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman, the gray haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in this book, the author takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela that many have forgotten: the committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names an |
| Item Description: |
Subtitle from dust jacket. Originally published: Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-392) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780316035491 (paperback) : 0316035491 (paperback) 9780316035484 0316035483 |
| Index Number: | DT1949 |
| CLC: | K834.787 |
| Call Number: | K834.787/M271S-4 |