Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

John Carlin

ISBN 10: 0143117157 / ISBN 13: 9780143117155

Published by Penguin Books, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143117157
• ISBN 13: 9780143117155
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

John Carlin is senior international writer for El País, the world’sleading Spanish language newspaper, and was previously the U.S.bureau chief for The Independent on Sunday. His writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The New Republic, Wired, Spin, and Conde NastTraveler.