Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa
New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999. First edition. First edition stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [8], 381 p. Illustrations. Endpaper map. Note on Sources. Chapter Notes. Index. In this revealing portrait of life under apartheid, Glenn Frankel tells of three Jewish families who took stands against apartheid, and their difficult lives after the 1963 raid in Rivonia, a white suburb of Johannesburg. "....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....";. Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped.
Keywords: African Natinal Congress, Jews, Apartheid, Afrikaner, Hilda Bernstein, Vernon Berrange, Joel Joffe, Ruth First, Bram Fischer, Denis Goldberg, Arthur Goldreich, James Kantor, Nelson Mandela, Mayibuye, Helen Suzman, Walter Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Harold Wol
ISBN: 9780374250997
[Book #64668]
Price: $45.00