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Publisher
Anchor Bay Films
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society. Idris Elba stars as Nelson Mandela with Justin Chadwick directing.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
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Description
Presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 620 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the future leader of South Africa wrote a multitude of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxi, 454 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.
8) Invictus
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.
Author
Publisher
Hachette, Little, Brown And Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
23 CDs (ca. 28 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
A memoir by Nelson Mandela's trusted assistant for almost twenty years tells the story of how a young woman's life, beliefs, prejudices--everything she once believed--were transformed by the man she had been taught was the enemy.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for 23 years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided. If he couldn't unite his country in a visceral, emotional way--and fast--it would collapse into chaos. He would need...
14) Endgame
Publisher
Distributed by Monterey Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Working for P. W. Botha, Dr. Neil Barnard opens talks with imprisoned Nelson Mandela. But lesser known are the secret talks that take place in a rural English manor house. Both sides may win or lose all, including their own lives. Botha learns of the British talks and, with the inevitable demise of apartheid, he intends to control the endgame by using the tactics of divide and rule. Against all the odds, a precious arena of frail trust between the...
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2014, ©2014
Physical Desc
1 CD (1.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The award-winning Radio Diaries documented the struggle against apartheid through first-person accounts of Nelson Mandela, his friends, and enemies. Includes a lost recording of his 1964 trial, guerilla soldier marching sons, a secret tape of a visit between imprisoned Mandela and his family, and first-person accounts from former activists, politicians, army generals, prisoners, and other witnesses to history.
16) Nelson Mandela
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Series
Formats
Description
Presents the life of Nelson Mandela, from his days as an imprisoned freedom fighter to his role as president of South Africa, includes a biographical timeline and historical photographs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Describes the life of the South African president and revolutionary, from his childhood and his work as a peaceful protestor to his twenty-seven-year imprisonment, his election as president, and his work to end apartheid in South Africa.
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