Praise for
YOUNG MANDELA "
Young Mandela provides a fascinating take on the South African freedom fighter's rise to power, including his fraught relationship with his children and his courtship of Winnie."--
Vogue"David James Smith's
Young Mandela takes up the tale of Mandela's rise within the A.N.C.in gripping fashion...and offers a fresh portrait of this modern-day saint...Here, you think, is the man."--
J.M. Ledgard,
Young Mandela"Absorbing...Smith's account performs the great service of making the hero more fully human."--
Joshua Hammer,
New Republic"
Young Mandela presents a vivid picture of South Africa under apartheid...Mandela's flaws make him more fascinating, and his movement's ambiguities and conflicts map the crooked, hard-fought road that every freedom struggle must travel."--
Kate Tuttle,
Boston Globe"Illuminating...Mandela is portrayed as a flawed, complex man...but it is this rounded view of the man that gives the book its humanity."--
Peter Howard,
Newark Star-Ledger
An assessment of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning South African president's early years as an anti-Apartheid revolutionary profiles his country at the time of his youth while describing his decision to leave his family and assume a false name in order to organize first strikes against the Apartheid state.