Monday, December 20, 2010

Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years

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Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years

by David James Smith

Little, Brown, and Co. 416 pp., $27.99

Midway through David James Smith’s absorbing account of the pre-Robben Island life of Nelson Mandela, the author breaks from his narrative to recount a scene in a hospital room in Johannesburg. In December 2004, Makgatho, Mandela’s estranged son from his first marriage, was dying of AIDS following years of alcoholism and aimlessness. In his last days, other members of Mandela’s family, including Ndileka—the daughter of Mandela’s elder son, who had died in a car crash in July 1969—

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