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    Mandela : a biography / Martin Meredith.

    By: Meredith, MartinMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : PublicAffairs, c2010Description: xviii, 653 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781586489519Subject(s): Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 | South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century | African National Congress -- History | Political prisoners -- South Africa -- Biography | Presidents -- South Africa -- Biography | South Africa -- Race relations | Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 | African National Congress | Political prisoners | Politics and government | Presidents | Race relations | South Africa | Presidenten | Zuid-Afrika | Mandela, Nelson | 1900-1999Genre/Form: Biographie. | Biography. | History.DDC classification: 968.06/5092 | B LOC classification: DT1974 | .M474 2010Other classification: 15.80
    Contents:
    The mission school ladder -- Johannesburg -- Friends and comrades -- The apartheid machine -- The 'M' plan -- The freedom charter -- 'The fabulous decade' -- A trial of endurance -- Spear of the nation -- Capture -- Operation Mayibuye -- The Rivonia trial -- Prisoner 466/64 -- A double ordeal -- Soweto -- Free Mandela! -- Talking with the enemy -- The football club -- Botha's tea party -- A step to freedom -- The third man -- Winnie's trial -- Codesa -- Winnie's downfall -- The sunset clause -- The loneliest man -- The election roller-coaster -- Reinventing South Africa -- The bitter end -- The gravy train -- Dealing with the past -- Passing the baton -- L'envoi.
    Summary: Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    "First published in 1997 in Great Britain by the Penguin Group"--T.p. verso.

    The mission school ladder -- Johannesburg -- Friends and comrades -- The apartheid machine -- The 'M' plan -- The freedom charter -- 'The fabulous decade' -- A trial of endurance -- Spear of the nation -- Capture -- Operation Mayibuye -- The Rivonia trial -- Prisoner 466/64 -- A double ordeal -- Soweto -- Free Mandela! -- Talking with the enemy -- The football club -- Botha's tea party -- A step to freedom -- The third man -- Winnie's trial -- Codesa -- Winnie's downfall -- The sunset clause -- The loneliest man -- The election roller-coaster -- Reinventing South Africa -- The bitter end -- The gravy train -- Dealing with the past -- Passing the baton -- L'envoi.

    Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.

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