Summary
Nelson Mandela is the greatest political figure of our age and is universally known as a heroic leader who symbolises freedom and moral authority. He will soon be 90 years old and is fixed in the public mind as the world’s elder statesman - the dignified, grey-haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison from 1962 and somehow emerged intact to become the first black President of a newly liberated South Africa.
But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. This bo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753825488 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753825481 |
| Author: | David James Smith |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
It is a brave biographer who dares the re-evaluate the man behind the myth…David James Smith’s fascinating account does just that, revealing unexpected, sometimes shocking details
It is a brave biographer who dares the re-evaluate the man behind the myth…David James Smith’s fascinating account does just that, revealing unexpected, sometimes shocking details – Aimee Shalan * GUARDIAN *An eye-opening account * SUNDAY BUSINESS POST *
About The Author
David James Smith
David James Smith was born in 1956 and has been a journalist all his working life. He writes for the Sunday Times Magazine.
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