Nelson Mandela

Scott, Christina

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

The name Nelson Mandela is synonymous with freedom and moral integrity. He is the living symbol of the triumphant struggle to replace South Africa's apartheid regime with a multiracial democracy. Fully illustrated, this biography chronicles the remarkable life of Nelson Mandela, from his days as student activist and guerrilla leader to his 27 years in prison to his position as an iconic elder statesman beloved the world over.

Nelson Mandela: A Force for Freedom (Y)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Andre Deutsch

Nelson Mandela (The Compact Guide)

Welbeck

Millions of people owe their liberty to Nelson Mandela's dedication and refusal to be silenced. This spectacular biography celebrates his life with beautiful photographs and well-informed writing by the award-winning South African journalist Christina Scott. Readers will be inspired and encouraged by Mandela's vision, his struggle, and his success. This biography follows his life through early childhood; his involvement with the ANC, South Africa's oldest liberation movement; his imprisonment; the struggle for his freedom; his liberation and years as president; and the work he continues to do around the world. This impressive volume is a fitting tribute to the life and work of a heroic man.

Community & Culture

Gramercy

Biography by Dawson's daughter, Christina Scott

A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970

Sheed Ward

A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson, 1889-1970 (Works of Christopher Dawson)

The Catholic University of America Press

As a historian of ideas, Christopher Dawson was one of the most distinguished Catholic thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a scholar of immense erudition, a writer of great style and fluency, and the first Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic studies at Harvard. It is in the field of the history of ideas that he achieved his most lasting influence. This biography by Christina Scott, Dawson's daughter, is a sensitive portrait of a complex and fascinating scholar. The author's first-hand knowledge and her access to unpublished family memoirs has enabled her to paint a convincing picture of the basic personal security provided by Dawson's private life, his friendships, and his deep Christian faith-a personal security all too often required as a bulwark against the vicissitudes and disappointments of his public life. Dawson's Catholicism proved a problem to advancement in his academic career; and when public recognition of his true stature finally came, in the form of the Stillman Chair, it came late in life and in a country other than his own. Christina Scott shows that Dawson is best understood as he himself interpreted his historical subjects-in the context of "the spiritual world in which he lived, the ideas that moved him, and the faith that inspired his action." Dawson was not a historian of ideas for their own sake; he had a passionate belief in their liberating power. A Historian and His World will be of interest to intellectual historians, historians of religion, and students of modern Catholic thought. This is the first publication of the Dawson biography in the United States. It is graced by a postscript written by Christopher Dawson reflecting upon the meaning of his work.

A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson (Library of Conservative Thought)

Routledge

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