TY - BOOK AU - Meredith,Martin TI - Mandela: a biography SN - 9781586489519 AV - DT1974 .M474 2010 U1 - 968.06/5092B 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - PublicAffairs KW - Mandela, Nelson, KW - Mandela, Nelson. KW - African National Congress KW - History KW - fast KW - Political prisoners KW - South Africa KW - Biography KW - Presidents KW - Politics and government KW - Race relations KW - Presidenten KW - gtt KW - 20th century KW - Zuid-Afrika KW - Biographie N1 - "First published in 1997 in Great Britain by the Penguin Group"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 ER -