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.
Playing The EnemyIntroduction

Chapter I: Breakfast in Houghton
Chapter II: The Minister of Justice
Chapter III: Separate Amenities
Chapter IV: Bagging the Croc
Chapter V: Different Planets
Chapter VI: Ayatollah Mandela
Chapter VII: The Tiger King
Chapter VIII: The Mask
Chapter IX: The Bitter-Enders
Chapter X: Romancing the General
Chapter XI: "Address Their Hearts"
Chapter XII: The Captain and the President
Chapter XIII: Springbok Serenade
Chapter XIV: Silvermine
Chapter XV: Doubting Thomases
Chapter XVI: The Number Six Jersey
Chapter XVII: "Nelson! Nelson!"
Chapter XVIII: Blood in the Throat
Chapter XIX: Love Thine Enemy

Epilogue
Where Are They Now?
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Index

A section of photographs follows page 114.

John Carlin nació en Londres en 1956, y estudió Lengua y Literatura inglesa en la Universidad de Oxford. Empezó su carrera periodística en 1981 como redactor de política y deportes y fue crítico de cine para el Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina). Desde entonces ha escrito desde países de todos los continentes para medios de todo el mundo. Entre 1989 y 1995 fue corresponsal en Sudáfrica de The Independent, y cubrió los años decisivos del fin del apartheid. Ha realizado documentales y ha escrito varios libros, el último, Rafa, sobre el tenista español Rafa Nadal. Entre otros premios, ha ganado el Ortega y Gasset en el año 2000 por un artículo para El País sobre la inmigración en España. View titles by John Carlin

About

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.

Table of Contents

Playing The EnemyIntroduction

Chapter I: Breakfast in Houghton
Chapter II: The Minister of Justice
Chapter III: Separate Amenities
Chapter IV: Bagging the Croc
Chapter V: Different Planets
Chapter VI: Ayatollah Mandela
Chapter VII: The Tiger King
Chapter VIII: The Mask
Chapter IX: The Bitter-Enders
Chapter X: Romancing the General
Chapter XI: "Address Their Hearts"
Chapter XII: The Captain and the President
Chapter XIII: Springbok Serenade
Chapter XIV: Silvermine
Chapter XV: Doubting Thomases
Chapter XVI: The Number Six Jersey
Chapter XVII: "Nelson! Nelson!"
Chapter XVIII: Blood in the Throat
Chapter XIX: Love Thine Enemy

Epilogue
Where Are They Now?
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Index

A section of photographs follows page 114.

Author

John Carlin nació en Londres en 1956, y estudió Lengua y Literatura inglesa en la Universidad de Oxford. Empezó su carrera periodística en 1981 como redactor de política y deportes y fue crítico de cine para el Buenos Aires Herald (Argentina). Desde entonces ha escrito desde países de todos los continentes para medios de todo el mundo. Entre 1989 y 1995 fue corresponsal en Sudáfrica de The Independent, y cubrió los años decisivos del fin del apartheid. Ha realizado documentales y ha escrito varios libros, el último, Rafa, sobre el tenista español Rafa Nadal. Entre otros premios, ha ganado el Ortega y Gasset en el año 2000 por un artículo para El País sobre la inmigración en España. View titles by John Carlin

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