TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, David James
TI  - Young Mandela
SN  - 9780297858454
U1  - 968.065092 SMI-D 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Weidenfeld & Nicolson
KW  - Mandela, Nelson, -- 1918-2013
KW  - South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1961-1978
KW  - Apartheid -- South Africa -- History
KW  - African National Congress--Biography
KW  - Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa--History
KW  - Political prisoners--South Africa--Biography
KW  - Civil rights workers--South Africa--Biography
KW  - South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1961
KW  - South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - South Africa
N1  - Nelson Mandela is well known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman, the gray haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in this book, the author takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela that many have forgotten: the committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state. This work lifts the curtain on an icon's first steps to greatness
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