Playing the Enemy
Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveplayingenemynels0000carl_o2n4
- Internet Archiveplayingenemynels0000carl_h0t9
- ISBN-101594201749
- ISBN-139781594201745
- LibraryThing5104004
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2008298721
- OCLC Control Number232118890
- Better World Books9781594201745
- Open LibraryOL12433665M
Classifications
- LCCDT1949.M35 C37 2008
- LCCDT1949.M35C282 2008
Description
In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for 23 years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided. If he couldn't unite his country in a visceral, emotional way--and fast--it would collapse into chaos. He would need all the charisma and strategic acumen he had honed during half a century of activism, and he'd need a cause all South Africans could share. Mandela picked one of the more farfetched causes imaginable--the national rugby team, the Springboks, who would host the sport's World Cup in 1995. Author Carlin, former South Africa bureau chief for the London Independent, offers a portrait of the greatest statesman of our time in action.--From publisher description.
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