Mandela

• The essential Mandela - his life, political thought, and significance
• The first book to probe the origins of Mandela's heroic appeal - and his own role in forging it
• Draws on a range of original sources to offer a clear-sighted, objective assessment
• Presents a host of fresh insights into the development of Mandela's political thinking, from his youth, through imprisonment, to his presidency of the new South Africa
• Highlights the crucial interplay between Mandela's background and personal world and his public life

Readership: General readers and students with an interest in the life of Nelson Mandela and contemporary South African history and politics.

Tom Lodge, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick

"A balanced critical biography." - Sarah Ruden, Standpoint

1: Childhood and Upbringing
2: Becoming a Notable
3: Volunteer-in-Chief
4: Making a Messiah
5: Trials
6: Prisoner 466/64
7: Leading from Prison
8: Messianic Politics and the Transition to Democracy
9: Embodying the Nation

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