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    Playing the Enemy

    Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

    Author John Carlin
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    On sale Aug 14, 2008 | 288 Pages | 9781440634246
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    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
    " This wonderful book describes Mandela's methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby."
    -The New York Times Book Review

    " If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin's engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history."
    -USA Today

    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

    Praise

    " This wonderful book describes Mandela's methodical, improbable and brilliant campaign to reconcile resentful blacks and fearful whites around a sporting event, a game of rugby."
    -The New York Times Book Review

    " If you have any doubts about the political genius of Nelson Mandela, read John Carlin's engrossing book . . . [A] feel-good slice of history."
    -USA Today

    Additional formats

    • Invictus
      Invictus
      Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
      John Carlin
      9781101159927
      Ebook
      Penguin Books
      Nov 18, 2009
    • Playing the Enemy
      Playing the Enemy
      Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
      John Carlin
      9780143115724
      $18.00 US
      Paperback
      Penguin Books
      Jul 28, 2009
    • Invictus
      Invictus
      Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
      John Carlin
      9781101159927
      Ebook
      Penguin Books
      Nov 18, 2009
    • Playing the Enemy
      Playing the Enemy
      Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
      John Carlin
      9780143115724
      $18.00 US
      Paperback
      Penguin Books
      Jul 28, 2009

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