Fb2 A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream ePub

by Mark Gevisser

Mark Gevisser Leaders and Notable People English

Fb2 A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream ePub

Category:	Leaders and Notable People
Subcategory:	Memoris and Biographies
Author:	Mark Gevisser
ISBN:	0230611001
ISBN13:	978-0230611009
Language:	English
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (March 31, 2009)
Pages:	400
Fb2 eBook:	1514 kb
ePub eBook:	1171 kb
Digital formats:	mbr azw lit mobi

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Xii, 376 pages, pages of plates : 23 cm. In this Gripping History of South Africa, award-winning journalist Mark Gevisser traces the family of former president Thabo Mbeki across three generations to make sense of the ANC's legacy and unders.

A Legacy of Liberation is memorable and definitive

A Legacy of Liberation is memorable and definitive . Gevisser carefully listens to his subject and those around him before artfully dissecting his thinking.

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Mark Gevisser (born 1964) is a South African author and journalist best known for his biography of Thabo Mbeki, his country's second democratically elected president. Mark Gevisser was born in 1964 in South Africa. He graduated from Yale University in 1987 magna cum laude with a degree in comparative literature. Gevisser started his career in New York, where he worked for Village Voice and The Nation before returning to South Africa in 1990.

A biography of Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s second president, a man who has been a puzzle to many observers. Continue reading the main story. Even in this abridged version, the book is an impressive feat of journalism.

Mark Gevisser is currently The Nation's Southern African correspondent Read Mark Gevisser's featured CIS article connecting Barack Obama's election and the legacy of liberation i. .

Mark Gevisser is currently The Nation's Southern African correspondent. In South Africa, his work has appeared in the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times and many magazines and periodicals. Internationally, he has written widely on South African politics, culture and society, in publications ranging from Vogue and the New York Times to Foreign Affairs and Art in America. From the World Beyond the Headlines lecture series.

A Legacy of Liberation. Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream. Mark Gevisser has given us a wonderfully readable study of a powerful man's character: he shows how Thabo Mbeki shaped, and was shaped by, South Africa's troubled history. After a decade interviewing key players in the liberation struggle and their sometimes forgotten families, Gevisser writes with both compassion and a keenly critical eye. A fine wordsmith with an eye for evocative detail, he exposes the demons besetting the South African dream.

Thabo Mbeki and the Future of the South African Dream.

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In this gripping social history of South Africa, award winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo Mbeki to make sense of the legacy of liberation struggle andunderstand thefuture of the country under Jacob Zuma.With unparalleled access to Mbeki and Zuma as well askey ANC brass, Gevisser presents an intimate yet accessible account of South Africa's past, present and future. With his stunning account of the Mbeki family's history as a backdrop, Gevisser fleshes out the very human elements of a monumental period in world history that will continue to shape African politics for years to come.

Thabel

I could not put this book down! Loved every bit of it. Reveals Former President Thabo Mbeki in new light. Very well written.

Mr.Twister

Not for nothing did the Times Literary Supplement call this "the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid." Whether you already know a lot about South Africa, or nothing at all, you'll learn a tremendous amount from Gevisser about the country's history, politics and people, and especially about Thabo Mbeki, the complex, controversial and fascinating leader who succeeded Nelson Mandela as South Africa's president. Read this book!