The Last Trek--A New Beginning; The Autobiography - signiertes Exemplar
2020, ISBN: 9780312223106
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Tight, clean and unmarked copy-" In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy … Mehr…
Tight, clean and unmarked copy-" In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world and start trusting the voice deep within us. Untamed will liberate women emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love This is how you find yourself. There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent even from ourselves. For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world's expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member's ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is. Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get. About the Author: Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah's Book Club selection, as well as the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior. An activist, speaker, and thought leader, she is also the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women-led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy raising over $20 million for women, families, and children in crisis, with a most frequent donation of just $25. Glennon was named among OWN Network's SuperSoul 100 inaugural group as one of 100 awakened leaders who are using their voices and talent to elevate humanity. She lives in Florida with her wife and three children.", The Dial Press, 2020, 4, London: MacMillan, 1969 Very interesting ex library book, first edition, first printing: a biography of Indira Ghandi by her aunt illustrated with photographs. Describes the subject's childhood, marriage and career in the historical and cultural context, including the author's observations on women in politics in India. (She points out that despite a history of purdah and child brides, India appointed the first female ambassador and in 1966 elected fifty-nine female members to the Indian parliament). Indira grew up as an activist, organising at the age of twelve a "monkey army" of children who ran errands and eavesdropped on conversations on behalf of Mahatma Ghandi. There is a photograph of her at that age with Ghandi, and it is also explained that the man she married, Feroze Ghandi, was unrelated to the charismatic leader. Indira was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, who became head of state under the new constitution in 1952. . At various times both father and daughter were political prisoners. When Indira was thirteen he wrote to her from prison, "May you grow up into a brave soldier in India's service." Beautiful, intelligent and political, she became India's first female prime minister, in power for fifteen years. She is today criticised for her heavy handed sterilization program and her somewhat ruthless handling of the conflict with the Punjabi Sikhs led to her assassination in 1984. This library book was obviously read by many. The interior has numerous finger prints and the corners of the boards are worn. The binding is good and the boards are still quite bright, but are tape and liquid stained. The dust jacket is faded at the spine and is priceclipped but is otherwise complete with a protective cover that is not glued to it., MacMillan, 1969, 2.75, Audio CD"...this audiobook, which was dictated in the last year of King's life, put's both her and her husband's struggles in cultural and historical context. This is a must-listen." -- The Berkshire EdgeThe life story of Coretta Scott Kingâ¤wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activistâ¤as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friendsBorn in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, a committed pacifist, and a civil rights activist, she was an avowed feministâ¤a graduate student determined to pursue her own careerâ¤when she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs and racial justice goals, she married King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, a marcher, a negotiator, and a crucial fundraiser in support of world-changing achievements. As a widow and single mother of four, while butting heads with the all-male African American leadership of the times, she championed gay rights and AIDS awareness, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, lobbied for fifteen years to help pass a bill establishing the US national holiday in honor of her slain husband, and was a powerful international presence, serving as a UN ambassador and playing a key role in Nelson Mandela's election. Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an independent-minded black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful in the face of terrorism and violent hatred every single day of her life.This program includes archival recordings of Coretta Scott King and is read by Phylicia Rashad and January LaVoy. Phylicia Rashad is an actress, singer and stage director. She is known for roles in television shows such as Empire, Psych, and as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Her voice-over credits include spots in The Cleveland Show, Little Bill and Sofia the First. Rashad has also appeared in such films as For Colored Girls, Good Deeds, and Creed., Macmillan Audio, 2017-07, 6, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription is on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [8], 407, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A passionate defender of the environment for more than 20 years, Senator Al Gore from Tennessee is now convinced that the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of catastrophe. In this brave work, he argues that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature can save the earth for future generations. From Wikipedia: "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit is a 1992 book written by Al Gore, published in June 1992, shortly before he was elected Vice President in the 1992 presidential election. Known by the short title Earth in the Balance, the book explains the world's ecological predicament and describes a range of policies to deal with the most pressing problems. It includes a proposed "Global Marshall Plan" to address current ecological issues. Written while his son was recovering from a serious accident, Earth in the Balance became the first book written by a sitting U.S. Senator to make the New York Times bestseller list since John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. In 1993, Earth in the Balance was released in paperback and audio-book format on audio cassette tape. It received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights 1993 Book award given annually to a novelist who "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes-his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity." The book was followed by An Inconvenient Truth, a book that was the companion for a movie narrated by Al Gore, shown at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and released on 24 May, 2006." Also from Wikipedia: "Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, advocate and philanthropist, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993 2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President and lost the 2000 U.S. presidential election despite winning the popular vote. Gore is currently an author and environmental activist. He has founded a number of non-profit organizations, including the Alliance for Climate Protection, and has received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change activism. Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a Congressman from Tennessee from 1977 85 and from 1985 93 served as one of the state's Senators. He served as Vice-President during the Clinton administration from 1993-2001. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush. A controversial election dispute over a vote recount in Florida was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 in favor of Bush. Gore is the founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading its climate change solutions group. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute. Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. In 2007 he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year.", Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, 3, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First United States Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. G. Mendel (Front Cover Photograph). xx, 412 pages. Small DJ flap tear. Signing event ephemera laid in. The author signed this book on the title page. Endpaper map. List of Illustrations, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, and Index. The 35 chapters cover Roots; My Childhood; My Education; Law, Community and Politics; Parliament; John Vorster's Cabinet; Ministerial Career; The Split in the National Party; The Tricameral Parliament; The Constitutional Future of Black South Africans; The Total Onslaught; My Election as Leader of the National Party; President Botha's Departure from Politics; The First Months of My Presidency; The Pretoria Minute and the Birth of the New National Party; Violence and Operation Vula; Peace Initiatives and Commissions; Codesa 1; Governing the Country and the Referendum; Codesa II and Mass Action; The Record of Understanding; The Steyn Investigation; The Multiparty Negotiating Forum, Atom Bombs and Assassination; Progress Towards the Interim Constitution; The Nobel Peace Prize; The Zulus Ask for Independence; The Collapse of the Freedom Alliance; The IFP Comes on Board; The Election and the End of National Party Rule; The Government of National Unity; The New Constitution, Withdrawal from the Government of National Unity, Opposition and Retirement; Truth and Reconciliation; and With the Advantage of Hindsight. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history, on 27 April 1994. Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (born 18 March 1936) is a South African retired politician, who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997. de Klerk joined the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid. After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defense of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war. Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between Xhosa and Zulu. He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalized a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program. De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologized for apartheid's harmful effects. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote. de Klerk became a Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. He supported the government's liberal economic policies. His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he spoke fondly of him. In 1997, he retired from active politics and since then has lectured internationally. The recipient of a wide range of awards-including the Nobel Peace Prize-he was widely praised for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa. Derived from a Kirkus review: de Klerk is a fundamentally tragic figure: someone with the courage to abjure his most heartfelt inclinations and bravely lead his country forward-and himself straight out of power. There was little in his background to suggest he would be the man to end apartheid. He was an assiduous, ambitious National Party stalwart, reliably serving in a variety of ministerial assignments, delivering competence but never controversy, slowly climbing the ladder of politics . . . and then he changed everything. He provides a useful account of what happened, detailing the negotiating process leading to the creation of the "new South Africa,. He claims no knowledge of any of the recently revealed darker activities of the apartheid military-security complex. The end of apartheid may have been a moral struggle, but it was above all a grimy political process, and the most fascinating part of this account is the dance of adversaries, the shifting coalitions, the victories and defeats. Philosophically, perhaps even morally, de Klerk may have shifted, but he never turned from what is perhaps his truest identity: master political operator. Like South Africa's gold deposits, a lot of the value here is buried deep., St. Martin's Press, 1999, 2.75<
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The Last Trek--A New Beginning; The Autobiography - signiertes Exemplar
1999, ISBN: 9780312223106
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1938. With a Warm Inscription to Paul Darrow and his Wife Stone, Irving [1903-1989]. Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London. [Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Co. [Cambridge: The Riv… Mehr…
1938. With a Warm Inscription to Paul Darrow and his Wife Stone, Irving [1903-1989]. Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London. [Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Co. [Cambridge: The Riverside Press], 1938. [x], 338 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, red-stamped title to front board, blind fillets, author name and title to spine. Light spotting to front board and spine, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners lightly bumped and worn, ink stamp of Paul E. Darrow to front pastedown, brief pencil annotations to front free endpaper, newspaper clippings (reviews of Sailor on Horseback) and clipped portions of dust jacket affixed to endpapers, additional clipping laid-in. Moderate toning, partial crack in text block after half-title, all leaves secure, internally clean. Author's presentation inscription to half-title: "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Paul Darrow: I pledge myself to give everything I've got to make the Clarence Darrow biography at least as good as this book, and I hope a great deal better. With your cooperation and confidences, I think I can do at least partial justice to a great man. Fraternally Irving Stone." Additional autograph signature of Irving Stone to title page. $450. * First edition. Famous for his biographical novels of figures such as Vincent van Gogh, Stone also wrote a number of biographies, including Sailor on Horseback, a life of Jack London, and Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941), a well-received biography of the great American attorney. This copy of Sailor on Horseback is inscribed to Paul Darrow and his wife as Stone was beginning to plan his Darrow biography. Paul Darrow [1883-1956] was Darrow's only child and a businessman in Chicago for most of his adult life., 1938, 0, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First United States Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. G. Mendel (Front Cover Photograph). xx, 412 pages. Small DJ flap tear. Signing event ephemera laid in. The author signed this book on the title page. Endpaper map. List of Illustrations, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, and Index. The 35 chapters cover Roots; My Childhood; My Education; Law, Community and Politics; Parliament; John Vorster's Cabinet; Ministerial Career; The Split in the National Party; The Tricameral Parliament; The Constitutional Future of Black South Africans; The Total Onslaught; My Election as Leader of the National Party; President Botha's Departure from Politics; The First Months of My Presidency; The Pretoria Minute and the Birth of the New National Party; Violence and Operation Vula; Peace Initiatives and Commissions; Codesa 1; Governing the Country and the Referendum; Codesa II and Mass Action; The Record of Understanding; The Steyn Investigation; The Multiparty Negotiating Forum, Atom Bombs and Assassination; Progress Towards the Interim Constitution; The Nobel Peace Prize; The Zulus Ask for Independence; The Collapse of the Freedom Alliance; The IFP Comes on Board; The Election and the End of National Party Rule; The Government of National Unity; The New Constitution, Withdrawal from the Government of National Unity, Opposition and Retirement; Truth and Reconciliation; and With the Advantage of Hindsight. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history, on 27 April 1994. Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (born 18 March 1936) is a South African retired politician, who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997. de Klerk joined the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid. After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defense of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war. Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between Xhosa and Zulu. He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalized a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program. De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologized for apartheid's harmful effects. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote. de Klerk became a Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. He supported the government's liberal economic policies. His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he spoke fondly of him. In 1997, he retired from active politics and since then has lectured internationally. The recipient of a wide range of awards-including the Nobel Peace Prize-he was widely praised for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa. Derived from a Kirkus review: de Klerk is a fundamentally tragic figure: someone with the courage to abjure his most heartfelt inclinations and bravely lead his country forward-and himself straight out of power. There was little in his background to suggest he would be the man to end apartheid. He was an assiduous, ambitious National Party stalwart, reliably serving in a variety of ministerial assignments, delivering competence but never controversy, slowly climbing the ladder of politics . . . and then he changed everything. He provides a useful account of what happened, detailing the negotiating process leading to the creation of the "new South Africa,. He claims no knowledge of any of the recently revealed darker activities of the apartheid military-security complex. The end of apartheid may have been a moral struggle, but it was above all a grimy political process, and the most fascinating part of this account is the dance of adversaries, the shifting coalitions, the victories and defeats. Philosophically, perhaps even morally, de Klerk may have shifted, but he never turned from what is perhaps his truest identity: master political operator. Like South Africa's gold deposits, a lot of the value here is buried deep., St. Martin's Press, 1999, 2.75<
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The Last Trek--A New Beginning; The Autobiography - signiertes Exemplar
1999, ISBN: 9780312223106
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New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First United States Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. G. Mendel (Front Cover Photograph). xx, 412 pages. Small DJ fl… Mehr…
New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First United States Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. G. Mendel (Front Cover Photograph). xx, 412 pages. Small DJ flap tear. Signing event ephemera laid in. The author signed this book on the title page. Endpaper map. List of Illustrations, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, and Index. The 35 chapters cover Roots; My Childhood; My Education; Law, Community and Politics; Parliament; John Vorster's Cabinet; Ministerial Career; The Split in the National Party; The Tricameral Parliament; The Constitutional Future of Black South Africans; The Total Onslaught; My Election as Leader of the National Party; President Botha's Departure from Politics; The First Months of My Presidency; The Pretoria Minute and the Birth of the New National Party; Violence and Operation Vula; Peace Initiatives and Commissions; Codesa 1; Governing the Country and the Referendum; Codesa II and Mass Action; The Record of Understanding; The Steyn Investigation; The Multiparty Negotiating Forum, Atom Bombs and Assassination; Progress Towards the Interim Constitution; The Nobel Peace Prize; The Zulus Ask for Independence; The Collapse of the Freedom Alliance; The IFP Comes on Board; The Election and the End of National Party Rule; The Government of National Unity; The New Constitution, Withdrawal from the Government of National Unity, Opposition and Retirement; Truth and Reconciliation; and With the Advantage of Hindsight. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history, on 27 April 1994. Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (born 18 March 1936) is a South African retired politician, who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997. de Klerk joined the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid. After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defense of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war. Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between Xhosa and Zulu. He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalized a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program. De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologized for apartheid's harmful effects. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote. de Klerk became a Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. He supported the government's liberal economic policies. His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he spoke fondly of him. In 1997, he retired from active politics and since then has lectured internationally. The recipient of a wide range of awards-including the Nobel Peace Prize-he was widely praised for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa. Derived from a Kirkus review: de Klerk is a fundamentally tragic figure: someone with the courage to abjure his most heartfelt inclinations and bravely lead his country forward-and himself straight out of power. There was little in his background to suggest he would be the man to end apartheid. He was an assiduous, ambitious National Party stalwart, reliably serving in a variety of ministerial assignments, delivering competence but never controversy, slowly climbing the ladder of politics . . . and then he changed everything. He provides a useful account of what happened, detailing the negotiating process leading to the creation of the "new South Africa,. He claims no knowledge of any of the recently revealed darker activities of the apartheid military-security complex. The end of apartheid may have been a moral struggle, but it was above all a grimy political process, and the most fascinating part of this account is the dance of adversaries, the shifting coalitions, the victories and defeats. Philosophically, perhaps even morally, de Klerk may have shifted, but he never turned from what is perhaps his truest identity: master political operator. Like South Africa's gold deposits, a lot of the value here is buried deep., St. Martin's Press, 1999, 2.75<
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The Last Trek -- A New Beginning is a frank and revealing autobiography that reflects both the author and his role during a remarkable period in history. On becoming State President of So… Mehr…
The Last Trek -- A New Beginning is a frank and revealing autobiography that reflects both the author and his role during a remarkable period in history. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history. This is the long-awaited inside story of the South African miracle by the man who sacrificed his own power to make it happen. De Klerk relates numerous anecdotes, personal behind-the-scenes observations and impressions of Mandela as well as other figures who have dominated recent South African history. He also provides a fascinating insight into the workings of power and the mechanics of historic change. Media > Book, [PU: St Martin's Press]<
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The Last Trek--A New Beginning; The Autobiography - signiertes Exemplar
2020, ISBN: 9780312223106
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Tight, clean and unmarked copy-" In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy … Mehr…
Tight, clean and unmarked copy-" In her most revealing and powerful book yet, the beloved activist, speaker, and bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world and start trusting the voice deep within us. Untamed will liberate women emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love This is how you find yourself. There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent even from ourselves. For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world's expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member's ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is. Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get. About the Author: Glennon Doyle is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior, an Oprah's Book Club selection, as well as the New York Times bestseller Carry On, Warrior. An activist, speaker, and thought leader, she is also the founder and president of Together Rising, an all-women-led nonprofit organization that has revolutionized grassroots philanthropy raising over $20 million for women, families, and children in crisis, with a most frequent donation of just $25. Glennon was named among OWN Network's SuperSoul 100 inaugural group as one of 100 awakened leaders who are using their voices and talent to elevate humanity. She lives in Florida with her wife and three children.", The Dial Press, 2020, 4, London: MacMillan, 1969 Very interesting ex library book, first edition, first printing: a biography of Indira Ghandi by her aunt illustrated with photographs. Describes the subject's childhood, marriage and career in the historical and cultural context, including the author's observations on women in politics in India. (She points out that despite a history of purdah and child brides, India appointed the first female ambassador and in 1966 elected fifty-nine female members to the Indian parliament). Indira grew up as an activist, organising at the age of twelve a "monkey army" of children who ran errands and eavesdropped on conversations on behalf of Mahatma Ghandi. There is a photograph of her at that age with Ghandi, and it is also explained that the man she married, Feroze Ghandi, was unrelated to the charismatic leader. Indira was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, who became head of state under the new constitution in 1952. . At various times both father and daughter were political prisoners. When Indira was thirteen he wrote to her from prison, "May you grow up into a brave soldier in India's service." Beautiful, intelligent and political, she became India's first female prime minister, in power for fifteen years. She is today criticised for her heavy handed sterilization program and her somewhat ruthless handling of the conflict with the Punjabi Sikhs led to her assassination in 1984. This library book was obviously read by many. The interior has numerous finger prints and the corners of the boards are worn. The binding is good and the boards are still quite bright, but are tape and liquid stained. The dust jacket is faded at the spine and is priceclipped but is otherwise complete with a protective cover that is not glued to it., MacMillan, 1969, 2.75, Audio CD"...this audiobook, which was dictated in the last year of King's life, put's both her and her husband's struggles in cultural and historical context. This is a must-listen." -- The Berkshire EdgeThe life story of Coretta Scott Kingâ¤wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activistâ¤as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friendsBorn in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, a committed pacifist, and a civil rights activist, she was an avowed feministâ¤a graduate student determined to pursue her own careerâ¤when she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs and racial justice goals, she married King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, a marcher, a negotiator, and a crucial fundraiser in support of world-changing achievements. As a widow and single mother of four, while butting heads with the all-male African American leadership of the times, she championed gay rights and AIDS awareness, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, lobbied for fifteen years to help pass a bill establishing the US national holiday in honor of her slain husband, and was a powerful international presence, serving as a UN ambassador and playing a key role in Nelson Mandela's election. Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an independent-minded black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful in the face of terrorism and violent hatred every single day of her life.This program includes archival recordings of Coretta Scott King and is read by Phylicia Rashad and January LaVoy. Phylicia Rashad is an actress, singer and stage director. She is known for roles in television shows such as Empire, Psych, and as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Her voice-over credits include spots in The Cleveland Show, Little Bill and Sofia the First. Rashad has also appeared in such films as For Colored Girls, Good Deeds, and Creed., Macmillan Audio, 2017-07, 6, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscription is on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [8], 407, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. A passionate defender of the environment for more than 20 years, Senator Al Gore from Tennessee is now convinced that the engines of human civilization have brought us to the brink of catastrophe. In this brave work, he argues that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature can save the earth for future generations. From Wikipedia: "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit is a 1992 book written by Al Gore, published in June 1992, shortly before he was elected Vice President in the 1992 presidential election. Known by the short title Earth in the Balance, the book explains the world's ecological predicament and describes a range of policies to deal with the most pressing problems. It includes a proposed "Global Marshall Plan" to address current ecological issues. Written while his son was recovering from a serious accident, Earth in the Balance became the first book written by a sitting U.S. Senator to make the New York Times bestseller list since John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. In 1993, Earth in the Balance was released in paperback and audio-book format on audio cassette tape. It received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights 1993 Book award given annually to a novelist who "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes-his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity." The book was followed by An Inconvenient Truth, a book that was the companion for a movie narrated by Al Gore, shown at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and released on 24 May, 2006." Also from Wikipedia: "Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, advocate and philanthropist, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993 2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President and lost the 2000 U.S. presidential election despite winning the popular vote. Gore is currently an author and environmental activist. He has founded a number of non-profit organizations, including the Alliance for Climate Protection, and has received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in climate change activism. Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a Congressman from Tennessee from 1977 85 and from 1985 93 served as one of the state's Senators. He served as Vice-President during the Clinton administration from 1993-2001. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush. A controversial election dispute over a vote recount in Florida was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 in favor of Bush. Gore is the founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading its climate change solutions group. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute. Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award-winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. In 2007 he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year.", Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, 3, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First United States Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. G. Mendel (Front Cover Photograph). xx, 412 pages. Small DJ flap tear. Signing event ephemera laid in. The author signed this book on the title page. Endpaper map. List of Illustrations, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, and Index. The 35 chapters cover Roots; My Childhood; My Education; Law, Community and Politics; Parliament; John Vorster's Cabinet; Ministerial Career; The Split in the National Party; The Tricameral Parliament; The Constitutional Future of Black South Africans; The Total Onslaught; My Election as Leader of the National Party; President Botha's Departure from Politics; The First Months of My Presidency; The Pretoria Minute and the Birth of the New National Party; Violence and Operation Vula; Peace Initiatives and Commissions; Codesa 1; Governing the Country and the Referendum; Codesa II and Mass Action; The Record of Understanding; The Steyn Investigation; The Multiparty Negotiating Forum, Atom Bombs and Assassination; Progress Towards the Interim Constitution; The Nobel Peace Prize; The Zulus Ask for Independence; The Collapse of the Freedom Alliance; The IFP Comes on Board; The Election and the End of National Party Rule; The Government of National Unity; The New Constitution, Withdrawal from the Government of National Unity, Opposition and Retirement; Truth and Reconciliation; and With the Advantage of Hindsight. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history, on 27 April 1994. Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (born 18 March 1936) is a South African retired politician, who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997. de Klerk joined the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid. After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defense of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war. Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between Xhosa and Zulu. He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalized a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program. De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologized for apartheid's harmful effects. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote. de Klerk became a Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. He supported the government's liberal economic policies. His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he spoke fondly of him. In 1997, he retired from active politics and since then has lectured internationally. The recipient of a wide range of awards-including the Nobel Peace Prize-he was widely praised for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa. Derived from a Kirkus review: de Klerk is a fundamentally tragic figure: someone with the courage to abjure his most heartfelt inclinations and bravely lead his country forward-and himself straight out of power. There was little in his background to suggest he would be the man to end apartheid. He was an assiduous, ambitious National Party stalwart, reliably serving in a variety of ministerial assignments, delivering competence but never controversy, slowly climbing the ladder of politics . . . and then he changed everything. He provides a useful account of what happened, detailing the negotiating process leading to the creation of the "new South Africa,. He claims no knowledge of any of the recently revealed darker activities of the apartheid military-security complex. The end of apartheid may have been a moral struggle, but it was above all a grimy political process, and the most fascinating part of this account is the dance of adversaries, the shifting coalitions, the victories and defeats. Philosophically, perhaps even morally, de Klerk may have shifted, but he never turned from what is perhaps his truest identity: master political operator. Like South Africa's gold deposits, a lot of the value here is buried deep., St. Martin's Press, 1999, 2.75<
de Klerk, F. W.:
The Last Trek--A New Beginning; The Autobiography - signiertes Exemplar1999, ISBN: 9780312223106
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1938. With a Warm Inscription to Paul Darrow and his Wife Stone, Irving [1903-1989]. Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London. [Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Co. [Cambridge: The Riv… Mehr…
1938. With a Warm Inscription to Paul Darrow and his Wife Stone, Irving [1903-1989]. Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London. [Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Co. [Cambridge: The Riverside Press], 1938. [x], 338 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, red-stamped title to front board, blind fillets, author name and title to spine. Light spotting to front board and spine, light fading to spine, spine ends and corners lightly bumped and worn, ink stamp of Paul E. Darrow to front pastedown, brief pencil annotations to front free endpaper, newspaper clippings (reviews of Sailor on Horseback) and clipped portions of dust jacket affixed to endpapers, additional clipping laid-in. Moderate toning, partial crack in text block after half-title, all leaves secure, internally clean. Author's presentation inscription to half-title: "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Paul Darrow: I pledge myself to give everything I've got to make the Clarence Darrow biography at least as good as this book, and I hope a great deal better. With your cooperation and confidences, I think I can do at least partial justice to a great man. Fraternally Irving Stone." Additional autograph signature of Irving Stone to title page. $450. * First edition. Famous for his biographical novels of figures such as Vincent van Gogh, Stone also wrote a number of biographies, including Sailor on Horseback, a life of Jack London, and Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941), a well-received biography of the great American attorney. This copy of Sailor on Horseback is inscribed to Paul Darrow and his wife as Stone was beginning to plan his Darrow biography. Paul Darrow [1883-1956] was Darrow's only child and a businessman in Chicago for most of his adult life., 1938, 0, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First United States Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. G. Mendel (Front Cover Photograph). xx, 412 pages. Small DJ flap tear. Signing event ephemera laid in. The author signed this book on the title page. Endpaper map. List of Illustrations, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, and Index. The 35 chapters cover Roots; My Childhood; My Education; Law, Community and Politics; Parliament; John Vorster's Cabinet; Ministerial Career; The Split in the National Party; The Tricameral Parliament; The Constitutional Future of Black South Africans; The Total Onslaught; My Election as Leader of the National Party; President Botha's Departure from Politics; The First Months of My Presidency; The Pretoria Minute and the Birth of the New National Party; Violence and Operation Vula; Peace Initiatives and Commissions; Codesa 1; Governing the Country and the Referendum; Codesa II and Mass Action; The Record of Understanding; The Steyn Investigation; The Multiparty Negotiating Forum, Atom Bombs and Assassination; Progress Towards the Interim Constitution; The Nobel Peace Prize; The Zulus Ask for Independence; The Collapse of the Freedom Alliance; The IFP Comes on Board; The Election and the End of National Party Rule; The Government of National Unity; The New Constitution, Withdrawal from the Government of National Unity, Opposition and Retirement; Truth and Reconciliation; and With the Advantage of Hindsight. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history, on 27 April 1994. Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (born 18 March 1936) is a South African retired politician, who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997. de Klerk joined the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid. After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defense of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war. Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between Xhosa and Zulu. He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalized a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program. De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologized for apartheid's harmful effects. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote. de Klerk became a Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. He supported the government's liberal economic policies. His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he spoke fondly of him. In 1997, he retired from active politics and since then has lectured internationally. The recipient of a wide range of awards-including the Nobel Peace Prize-he was widely praised for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa. Derived from a Kirkus review: de Klerk is a fundamentally tragic figure: someone with the courage to abjure his most heartfelt inclinations and bravely lead his country forward-and himself straight out of power. There was little in his background to suggest he would be the man to end apartheid. He was an assiduous, ambitious National Party stalwart, reliably serving in a variety of ministerial assignments, delivering competence but never controversy, slowly climbing the ladder of politics . . . and then he changed everything. He provides a useful account of what happened, detailing the negotiating process leading to the creation of the "new South Africa,. He claims no knowledge of any of the recently revealed darker activities of the apartheid military-security complex. The end of apartheid may have been a moral struggle, but it was above all a grimy political process, and the most fascinating part of this account is the dance of adversaries, the shifting coalitions, the victories and defeats. Philosophically, perhaps even morally, de Klerk may have shifted, but he never turned from what is perhaps his truest identity: master political operator. Like South Africa's gold deposits, a lot of the value here is buried deep., St. Martin's Press, 1999, 2.75<
The Last Trek--A New Beginning; The Autobiography - signiertes Exemplar
1999
ISBN: 9780312223106
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New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First United States Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. G. Mendel (Front Cover Photograph). xx, 412 pages. Small DJ flap tear. Signing event ephemera laid in. The author signed this book on the title page. Endpaper map. List of Illustrations, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, and Index. The 35 chapters cover Roots; My Childhood; My Education; Law, Community and Politics; Parliament; John Vorster's Cabinet; Ministerial Career; The Split in the National Party; The Tricameral Parliament; The Constitutional Future of Black South Africans; The Total Onslaught; My Election as Leader of the National Party; President Botha's Departure from Politics; The First Months of My Presidency; The Pretoria Minute and the Birth of the New National Party; Violence and Operation Vula; Peace Initiatives and Commissions; Codesa 1; Governing the Country and the Referendum; Codesa II and Mass Action; The Record of Understanding; The Steyn Investigation; The Multiparty Negotiating Forum, Atom Bombs and Assassination; Progress Towards the Interim Constitution; The Nobel Peace Prize; The Zulus Ask for Independence; The Collapse of the Freedom Alliance; The IFP Comes on Board; The Election and the End of National Party Rule; The Government of National Unity; The New Constitution, Withdrawal from the Government of National Unity, Opposition and Retirement; Truth and Reconciliation; and With the Advantage of Hindsight. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history, on 27 April 1994. Frederik Willem de Klerk OMG DMS (born 18 March 1936) is a South African retired politician, who served as State President of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as Deputy President from 1994 to 1996. As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a conservative and an economic liberal, he led the National Party from 1989 to 1997. de Klerk joined the National Party, to which he had family ties, he was elected to parliament and sat in the white-minority government of P. W. Botha, holding a succession of ministerial posts. As a minister, he supported and enforced apartheid. After Botha resigned in 1989, de Klerk replaced him, first as leader of the National Party and then as State President. Although observers expected him to continue Botha's defense of apartheid, de Klerk decided to end the policy. He was aware that growing ethnic animosity and violence was leading South Africa into a racial civil war. Amid this violence, the state security forces committed widespread human rights abuses and encouraged violence between Xhosa and Zulu. He permitted anti-apartheid marches to take place, legalized a range of previously banned anti-apartheid political parties, and freed imprisoned anti-apartheid activists, including Nelson Mandela. He also dismantled South Africa's nuclear weapons program. De Klerk negotiated with Mandela to fully dismantle apartheid and establish a transition to universal suffrage. In 1993, he publicly apologized for apartheid's harmful effects. He oversaw the 1994 non-racial election in which Mandela led the African National Congress (ANC) to victory; de Klerk's National Party took second place with 20% of the vote. de Klerk became a Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. He supported the government's liberal economic policies. His working relationship with Mandela was strained, although he spoke fondly of him. In 1997, he retired from active politics and since then has lectured internationally. The recipient of a wide range of awards-including the Nobel Peace Prize-he was widely praised for dismantling apartheid and bringing universal suffrage to South Africa. Derived from a Kirkus review: de Klerk is a fundamentally tragic figure: someone with the courage to abjure his most heartfelt inclinations and bravely lead his country forward-and himself straight out of power. There was little in his background to suggest he would be the man to end apartheid. He was an assiduous, ambitious National Party stalwart, reliably serving in a variety of ministerial assignments, delivering competence but never controversy, slowly climbing the ladder of politics . . . and then he changed everything. He provides a useful account of what happened, detailing the negotiating process leading to the creation of the "new South Africa,. He claims no knowledge of any of the recently revealed darker activities of the apartheid military-security complex. The end of apartheid may have been a moral struggle, but it was above all a grimy political process, and the most fascinating part of this account is the dance of adversaries, the shifting coalitions, the victories and defeats. Philosophically, perhaps even morally, de Klerk may have shifted, but he never turned from what is perhaps his truest identity: master political operator. Like South Africa's gold deposits, a lot of the value here is buried deep., St. Martin's Press, 1999, 2.75<
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The Last Trek -- A New Beginning is a frank and revealing autobiography that reflects both the author and his role during a remarkable period in history. On becoming State President of So… Mehr…
The Last Trek -- A New Beginning is a frank and revealing autobiography that reflects both the author and his role during a remarkable period in history. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history. This is the long-awaited inside story of the South African miracle by the man who sacrificed his own power to make it happen. De Klerk relates numerous anecdotes, personal behind-the-scenes observations and impressions of Mandela as well as other figures who have dominated recent South African history. He also provides a fascinating insight into the workings of power and the mechanics of historic change. Media > Book, [PU: St Martin's Press]<
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De Klerk was brought up as an Afrikaner nationalist and his view of the world was shaped by racism. He unapologetically tells how, as a young man, he was impressed with Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd's plans to create separate black homelands and was relieved when Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment. Throughout the time he was a nationalist parliament member, minister, and later president, de Klerk insists, he did not know about his government's reign of terror and its attendant massacres and death squads. (Though he was a "compassionate reformer" and lawyer, it seems unbelievable that he did not try harder to find out if the allegations were true.) He does apologize for apartheid crimes--but urges they should be seen in context of the cold war and his political background, as well as in comparison with other nations: a weak apology, indeed. The Last Trek offers interesting insights into de Klerk's mind, but its most interesting material may well be its description of how his relationship with Mandela deteriorated, leading to the collapse of the coalition government--an event that angered de Klerk's colleagues because it caused a rift in the party and eroded international confidence in multiracial government.
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