Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation - Paperback
by John Carlin
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:John CarlinAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2009-07-01Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143115724ISBN-10:143115723UPC:9780143115724Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Africa, Rugby, HistoryBook Topic:SouthSize:8.46 x 5.34 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCFZMWKNT4
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143115724ISBN-10:143115723UPC:9780143115724Book Category:History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Africa, Rugby, HistoryBook Topic:SouthSize:8.46 x 5.34 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCFZMWKNT4
John Carlin is senior international writer for El Pa?s, 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.
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