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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
Contributor(s): Carlin, John (Author)
ISBN: 0143115723     ISBN-13: 9780143115724
Publisher: Penguin Books
OUR PRICE:   $16.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2009
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Annotation: Carlin pens this thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa
- Sports & Recreation | Rugby
- Sports & Recreation | History
Dewey: 968.065
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.34" W x 8.46" (0.59 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southern Africa
- Chronological Period - 1990's
 
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Publisher Description:
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.