John Carlin

Playing the Enemy

Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

The inspiration for the film INVICTUS, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin LLC US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 141mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9780143115724
• ISBN-10: 0143115723
• Artikelnr.: 26180971

Autorenporträt

John Carlin

Inhaltsangabe

Playing The EnemyIntroduction
Chapter I: Breakfast in Houghton
Chapter II: The Minister of Justice
Chapter III: Separate Amenities
Chapter IV: Bagging the Croc
Chapter V: Different Planets
Chapter VI: Ayatollah Mandela
Chapter VII: The Tiger King
Chapter VIII: The Mask
Chapter IX: The Bitter-Enders
Chapter X: Romancing the General
Chapter XI: "Address Their Hearts"
Chapter XII: The Captain and the President
Chapter XIII: Springbok Serenade
Chapter XIV: Silvermine
Chapter XV: Doubting Thomases
Chapter XVI: The Number Six Jersey
Chapter XVII: "Nelson! Nelson!"
Chapter XVIII: Blood in the Throat
Chapter XIX: Love Thine Enemy
Epilogue
Where Are They Now?
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Index
A section of photographs follows page 114.