Shades of Difference: Transition in South Africa: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa - Hardcover

Padraig O'Malley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670852333 ISBN 13: 9780670852338

Publisher: Viking, 1998

Synopsis

Traces the inside story of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement as experienced firsthand by Nelson Mandela's minister of transport, describing his work as a freedom fighter, his imprisonment at the side of Mandela, and his key role in negotiations that ultimately led to South Africa's freedom in 1994.

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Review:

"[Shades of Difference] is exactly what O'Malley set out to achieve: 'a portrait of Mac and of South Africa.' It is a striking success."
-The New York Times Book Review

"[O'Malley] is knowledgeable and sure-footed as he recounts this story . . . making a complex narrative on the whole quite clear."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"A groundbreaking biography of a central figure in the fight to end South African apartheid."
-Publishers Weekly

"Brilliantly written."
-Library Journal (starred review)

About the Author:

Padraig OÂ’Malley is a scholar, author, and mediator. The author of Biting at the Grave, one of The New York Times EditorsÂ’ Choice Best Books of 1990, he was involved in negotiations to end the conflict in Northern Ireland. OÂ’Malley is the founding editor of the New England Journal of Public Policy and is currently a visiting professor of political studies at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0670852333
• ISBN 13: 9780670852338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448