Freedom Rising
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Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0452258057
ISBN13:9780452258051
Release Date:April 1986
Publisher:Plume Books
Length:347 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Great insight into a newly emerging nation.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This book brings the (then) coming rebirth of South Africa sharply into focus. By getting you involved in the everyday lives of people living in that country at the time apartheid was still in existence, North exposes the injustices of that horrible system and why it had to end. I read this book over a two-day period and would recommend it to anyone trying to get a better understanding of what the "old" South Africa was like for so many of its residents, as they suffered under its racist regime. As a footnote here, I was puzzled by the first reviewer's charges against North, as they made absolutely no sense, in light of how the author approached the subject of apartheid. I thank the author for explaining why that first review was even written.
The Writer Responds
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I am the author of Freedom Rising, and I want to respond to LGWriter's "review." LGWriter is an unbalanced individual who used to work with me in New York City, who evidently felt the need to strike out by attacking a book I published over 20 years ago. I doubt he read a single word of my book, and he is therefore in no position to call it "racist." I would simply point out that Freedom Rising was assessed positively in more than 50 publications, that it was a finalist for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize for the best book of 1985, that it won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best nonfiction book on race relations that year (previous winners included Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), and that the black poet Gwendolyn Brooks told the Washington Post it was her favorite book of the year. I just want to set the record straight for potential readers. James North (Dan Swanson)
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