Mandela: His Essential Life
Autor Peter Hainen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 iul 2018
This book encompasses Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first democratically elected president, his "retirement" campaigns for human rights, a solution to AIDS and poverty. It goes on to chronicle his later years and death. Throughout, the humanity and compassion of this extraordinary world leader shine through. The author concludes with a critical analysis of his and the ANC's achievements, its leadership's subsequent slide into corruption, and whether under new direction South Africa can reclaim the values and legacy of Mandela, and the 'rainbow nation' he created and led to such global acclaim.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781786607577
ISBN-10: 1786607573
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 9 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1786607573
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 9 b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 230 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Mandela Time Line
Preface
Introduction: International Icon
Chapter 1: Roots
Chapter 2: Grooming a Chief
Chapter 3: Second Class
Chapter 4: Freedom Fighter
Chapter 5: Prisoner
Chapter 6: Resistance
Chapter 7: Victory
Chapter 8: President
Chapter 9: Mandela Magic
Chapter 10: Legacy Betrayed?
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Preface
Introduction: International Icon
Chapter 1: Roots
Chapter 2: Grooming a Chief
Chapter 3: Second Class
Chapter 4: Freedom Fighter
Chapter 5: Prisoner
Chapter 6: Resistance
Chapter 7: Victory
Chapter 8: President
Chapter 9: Mandela Magic
Chapter 10: Legacy Betrayed?
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Recenzii
Passionate and engaging. From a man whose tireless anti-apartheid activism supported the long struggle to free his friend and leader, Nelson Mandela.
Highly readable and inspirational.
His life and times told succinctly and compellingly.
Peter Hain's excellent Mandela: His Essential Life, does not pretend to be anything more than, as he writes, a "short, popular and accessible book that tells Mandela's entire and remarkable story in a nutshell". Actually, he does himself a disservice: it is much more than that, and is a serious analysis of Mandela's place in history, his failings as well as his virtues.
It also contains a powerful final chapter on the betrayal of the Mandela legacy. In recent years, Hain, a second-generation anti-apartheid activist, has exposed the corruption of the Zuma presidency, and played no small part in bringing down the PR firm Bell Pottinger. It is a sad sequel to Mandel's life but a story of modern-day South Africa that needs to be told.
Borrowing extensively from works such as Anthony Sampson's Mandela (1999) and Nelson Mandela's own autobiography Long Walk to Freedom (CH, Apr'95, 32-4642), Hain, a former anti-apartheid activist, offers a more condensed biography of the freedom fighter turned statesman, and combines it with personal observations of his encounters with the legendary South African. Hain tracks Mandela's rural roots, political awakening, trial and imprisonment, progressive estrangement from his wife, Winnie, and triumph in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. Despite several chronological issues (i.e., the Congress of the People took place in June 1955), Hain's narrative of Mandela's long struggle for justice and reconciliation falls in line with other scholarly biographies, even if it does not break new ground. The most original material in Hain's book comes in the later chapters, where he relates several encounters with the man known as Madiba. "It was not just his towering moral stature, his courage and his capacity to inspire that endeared Nelson Mandela to so many," Hain observes. "Despite being one of the world's most prominent statesmen-perhaps the most revered-he retained his extraordinary humanity."
Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels.
Highly readable and inspirational.
His life and times told succinctly and compellingly.
Peter Hain's excellent Mandela: His Essential Life, does not pretend to be anything more than, as he writes, a "short, popular and accessible book that tells Mandela's entire and remarkable story in a nutshell". Actually, he does himself a disservice: it is much more than that, and is a serious analysis of Mandela's place in history, his failings as well as his virtues.
It also contains a powerful final chapter on the betrayal of the Mandela legacy. In recent years, Hain, a second-generation anti-apartheid activist, has exposed the corruption of the Zuma presidency, and played no small part in bringing down the PR firm Bell Pottinger. It is a sad sequel to Mandel's life but a story of modern-day South Africa that needs to be told.
Borrowing extensively from works such as Anthony Sampson's Mandela (1999) and Nelson Mandela's own autobiography Long Walk to Freedom (CH, Apr'95, 32-4642), Hain, a former anti-apartheid activist, offers a more condensed biography of the freedom fighter turned statesman, and combines it with personal observations of his encounters with the legendary South African. Hain tracks Mandela's rural roots, political awakening, trial and imprisonment, progressive estrangement from his wife, Winnie, and triumph in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. Despite several chronological issues (i.e., the Congress of the People took place in June 1955), Hain's narrative of Mandela's long struggle for justice and reconciliation falls in line with other scholarly biographies, even if it does not break new ground. The most original material in Hain's book comes in the later chapters, where he relates several encounters with the man known as Madiba. "It was not just his towering moral stature, his courage and his capacity to inspire that endeared Nelson Mandela to so many," Hain observes. "Despite being one of the world's most prominent statesmen-perhaps the most revered-he retained his extraordinary humanity."
Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels.