Young Mandela / David James Smith.

By:

Smith, David James, 1956-

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TextPublication details: New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2010.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 405 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780316035484
0316035483
9780297855248

Other title:

Young Mandela the revolutionary years [Cover title]

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DDC classification:

968.06/5092 B 22

LOC classification:

DT1949.M35 S65 2010

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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 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.

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Subtitle from dust jacket.

Originally published: Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-392) and index.

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.

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