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BL
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645711
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| Main Entry
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Meredith, Martin.
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| Title & Author
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Mandela : : a biography /\ Martin Meredith.
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| Page. NO
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xviii, 653 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, map ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9781586488321 (alk. paper)
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: 1586488325 (alk. paper)
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| Notes
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"First published in 1997 in Great Britain by the Penguin Group"--T.p. verso.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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Mandela, Nelson,1918-2013.
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African National Congress-- History.
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Political prisoners-- South Africa, Biography.
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Presidents-- South Africa, Biography.
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South Africa, Politics and government, 20th century.
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South Africa, Race relations.
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| Dewey Classification
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968.06/5092B
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| LC Classification
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DT1974.M474 2010
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