Legacy Of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream - Softcover

Gevisser, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230619991 ISBN 13: 9780230619999

Publisher: Griffin, 2010

Synopsis

A Legacy of Liberation With unprecedented access to Mbeki and the ANC, A Legacy of Liberation weaves a nuanced portrait of the black experience under apartheid and sheds light on the future of the nation under a new regime. It is a gripping social history of South Africa's past and future, beautifully narrated by one of Africa's most esteemed journalists. Full description

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Review:

'Gevisser, calling on a vast amount of research, is able to assemble a compelling explanation of this most impenetrable persona.' - The Nation
 
'A Legacy of Liberation is memorable and definitive. Accompanying Mbeki on his life journey, Gevisser is both informative and moving, passionate and dispassionate...Obviously we cannot be brought to pardon or sympathise with Mbeki s estrangement from Mandela and his stance on Aids or on Zimbabwe, but Gevisser helps us to understand where they come from, and how - and why - he has developed such seemingly monstrous attitudes...Few books in recent years have managed to bring the reader to such a deep and disquieting understanding of Paton s beloved country.'' - Andre Brink, Daily Telegraph
  'The best [of four new books about South Africa], Mark Gevisser's A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream seeks to understand how a man who came to power with so much goodwill behind him is today regarded with hostility...Gevisser carefully listens to his subject and those around him before artfully dissecting his thinking.' - Chris McGreal, The Observer
 
'Irresistible detail about Mbeki in Britain in the 1960s.' - Stephen Robinson, Sunday Times
  'An epic biography.' - Matthew Kaminski, The Wall Street Journal  'An impressive feat of journalism...Gevisser writes well, particularly when he is witness to an event, when his narrative leaps off the page...offers some intriguing insights.' - Suzanne Daley, New York Times Book Review
 
'There s still a tragic element in the multilayered narrative Mark Gevisser has painstakingly constructed over a period of eight years [with] Mbeki, who had scratchy relations with the press. The version of Mark Gevisser s book that now appears here after Mbeki has been driven into sullen private life covers the final stages of his fall, filling the gap in the original, and still come in at less than half the length of the South African edition. Only specialists will miss the details that have been condensed here or hacked away.' - Joseph Lelyveld, New York Review of Books
 'A monumental biography.' - Barry Bearak, The New York Times
 
'A judicious and an eye-opening account of a life intersecting history at the most profound level.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
'One of the great epic books to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid. Rigorously reported, beautifully written, A Legacy of Liberation is at once a rich social history of the black experience under apartheid - as seen through its leaders, movements and people - and a brilliant expedition through the country's political and personal landscape, past, present and future.' - Katrina Vanden Heuvel, publisher of The Nation and editor of A Just Response and a Dictionary of Republicanism
 
'If Thabo Mbeki has been an enigma to --Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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'An epic biography.' - Matthew Kaminski, The Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Griffin
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230619991
• ISBN 13: 9780230619999
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400