Author: FRANKEL, GLENN
Title: Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0374250995. Hardcover is grey with a black spine; silver letting on front, white lettering on the spine. Endpapers have b/w monochrome maps. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated with 16 b/w photographs. "....is the harrowing and inspiring account of a handful of white activists, many of them Jewish, who risked their lives to combat apartheid when, in the 1960s, South Africa plunged into an era of darkness.....Their underground headquarters were in Rivonia, a Johannesburg suburb, and it was there that their dream of revolution was shattered after a police raid in 1963. Nelson Mandela, Rusty Bernstein and eight of their comrades were tried for sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the government... Is also the moving story of the impact of political activism on the lives of three families...." ; B & W photographs; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4; 381 pages; Cover has light bumping. DJ has light shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, and some light line marks.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0374250995 South Africa; Africa; African History; Apartheid; Racism; Discrimination; Hate Groups; Hate Crimes; Political History; Women/Womens' History Cultural History Education History Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals World History Judaism/Jewish Hi


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