Young Mandela
By: David James Smith.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780316035484
Subjects: Politics and government; Anti-apartheid movements; African National Congress; Political prisoners; Apartheid; History; Biography; Civil rights workers
Other titles: Young Mandela the revolutionary years.
Description: 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 and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state. This work lifts the curtain on an icon's first steps to greatness.
Notes: Subtitle from dust jacket.
Originally published: Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-392) and index.