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Cohen, David

Summary: Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 968.06 MANDELA, NELSON BAT

Fairbanks, Eve

Summary: "A decade in the making, The Inheritors tracks three ordinary South Africans over fifty years in a sweeping, exquisitely written look at what really happens after a country resolves to end white supremacy. Dipuo grew up on the south side of the mine dump that separated Johannesburg's Black townships from the white-only city. Some nights she hiked to the top. On the other side were glittering...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0968 FAI

Mandela, Winnie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MAN

Summary: In 1957, Rogosin travelled to South Africa and created a powerfully, moving drama exposing the harsh reality of life under the system apartheid. Filmed secretly under the noses of the feared South African police, Rogosin, his crew, and cast risked arrest and deportation. Miriam Makeba was banned from her country after travelling to Venice for the movie's premiere. The scenes shot in the vibrant...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COM

Mandela, Nelson

Contents: Struggle -- Freedom -- Reconciliation -- Nation building -- Development -- Education -- Culture -- Religion -- Health -- Children -- Heroes -- Peace.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAN

Carlin, John.

Summary: In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for 23 years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided. If he couldn't unite his country in a visceral, emotional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.333 CAR

Malala, Justice

Summary: "Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots the Black leader's popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in hopes of igniting an all-out war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid for perhaps years to come? In The Plot to Save South...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.07 MAL

McVicker, Idelette

Summary: "A white South African woman shares her journey away from racism, helping us realize that grappling with the legacy of white supremacy is a lifelong work that requires both inner transformation and societal change"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 MCV

Waldmeir, Patti.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.064 wal

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN RAD

Tutu, Desmond.

Summary: "The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. At the center of this attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on South...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.065 TUTU

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