Knowing Mandela
Subtitle: a personal portrait
By: John Carlin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780062323934
Subjects: Politics and government; Political prisoners; Biography; Presidents
Description: Draws on conversations with Mandela and interviews with those closest to him to provide an account of the challenges the statesman faced and the triumphs he achieved during South Africa's post-apartheid years.
Table of contents: title: The president and the journalist; title: Great expectations; title: Nelson and Cleopatra; title: Wooing the Blacks; title: The bitter-enders; title: A hero to his valet; title: White tears; title: Magnanimity.