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Fine in fine dust jacket. 373 p. Audience: General/trade. 1st American edition 1980 with DJ. Book is LIKE NEW. No marks or writing. DJ shows light wear
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New York. 1981. Atheneum. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0689111592. 373 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. keywords: South Africa Politics Journalism. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘Donald Woods is that phenomenon, a white whose extraordinary gifts match an extraordinary experience. Wit, exuberance, and a passion for justice clash headlong with the South African apartheid regime; there has never been a book like this one. Woods has laid his life on the line for what he believes-without a trace of self-righteousness. '-NADINE GORDIMER. In 1977 Donald Woods, disguised, armed, crouched on the floor of his car, fled South Africa. In the years immediately preceding, he had been jailed, his house pocked with bullets, his daughter burned with acid, and now he himself was under penalty of death. It was the culmination of years of private warfare against apartheid and the South African government, first from within the system, as the editor of a leading newspaper and author of the country's most widely syndicated column, then from without, as a banned journalist, forbidden to write, to speak, even to be in the same room with more than one other person. His book is an immensely readable account of his growing up white in the remote Transkei Territory and the rise of apartheid, of his extraordinarily candid dialogues with South Africa's leaders and his increasingly passionate struggle against them, of the guerrilla tactics used by and against him and finally his dramatic escape with his wife and children. It is filled with humor and anger and a rich fund of anecdotes, the story of a man in the eye of a storm and of a country under a harsh rule a book at once brilliantly informative and deeply involving. inventory #7335.
