Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation
by Carlin, John
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 Sou…
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- Full title :Invictus : Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation / John Carlin.
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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 in a hard-won, enduring bond.
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- Publication Date:2009.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
Notes
Originally published: Playing the enemy. New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations, portraits ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780143117155, 0143117157, 9781594201745, 1594201749
- oclc:ocn424558925
- LC Classification:DT1949.M35
- Dewey Decimal:306.4830968
Table of Contents
Breakfast in Houghton -- Minister of Justice -- Separate amenities -- Bagging the croc -- Different planets -- Ayatollah Mandela -- Tiger king -- Mask -- Bitter-enders -- Romancing the general -- "Address their hearts" -- Captain and the president -- Springbok serenade -- Silvermine -- Doubting Thomases -- Number six jersey -- "Nelson! Nelson!" -- Blood in the throat -- Love thine enemy.
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