Overview
Read the book that inspired the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning 2009 film INVICTUS featuring Morgan Freeman and Matt Daymon, directed by Clint Eastwood. Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby team, the Springboks-long an embodiment of white-supremacist rule-to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela's miraculous effort to bring South Africans together again in a hard-won, enduring bond.
Full Product Details
Author: John Carlin
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Penguin USA
Dimensions:
Width: 13.90cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 21.30cm
Weight: 0.261kg
ISBN: 9780143115724
ISBN 10: 0143115723
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 28 July 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This wonderful book describes Mandela's methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby. -The New York Times Book Review If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin's engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history. -USA Today This wonderful book describes Mandela''s methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby. - The New York Times Book Review If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin''s engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history. - USA Today a This wonderful book describes Mandelaas methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby.a a The New York Times Book Review a If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlinas engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history.a a USA Today
This wonderful book describes Mandela's methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby. -The New York Times Book Review If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin's engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history. -USA Today
a This wonderful book describes Mandelaas methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby.a<br> a The New York Times Book Review <br> a If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlinas engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history.a <br>a USA Today
This wonderful book describes Mandela's methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby. <br> - The New York Times Book Review <br><br> If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin's engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history. <br>- USA Today
Author Information
John Carlin is senior international writer for El País, the world’sleading Spanish language newspaper, and was previously the U.S.bureau chief for The Independent on Sunday. His writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The New Republic, Wired, Spin, and Conde NastTraveler.
