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War of Words : Memoir of a South African Journalist by Benjamin Pogrund (2000, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSeven Stories Press
ISBN-101888363711
ISBN-139781888363715
eBay Product ID (ePID)635775
Product Key Features
Book TitleWar of Words : Memoir of a South African Journalist
Number of Pages381 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Cultural Heritage, Revolutionary, Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, World / African
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorBenjamin Pogrund
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight25.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN97-050423
Reviews"Benjamin Pogrund was our bravest reporter . . . His courage was an inspiration." -Donald Woods, author of Biko: Cry Freedom "[Pogrund] unfolds three stories: South Africa's; that of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail , for which he wrote from 1958 until its demise in 1985; and his own. Pogrund recounts his boyhood as the son of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants and his adult commitment to dispassionate reporting that could not be used as propaganda by anyone. The book is a view of apartheid's bloodiest years from inside South Africa's leading newspaper by a man who knew the country's leaders personally and who appears candid about his own mistakes and those he saw on all sides. Fascinating in both perspective and detail." -Thomas J. Davis, Library Journal
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal070/.92 B
SynopsisMemoirs of a South African Journalist Benjamin Pogrund was our bravest reporter...the first to go to prison for what he wrote...also one of the first to befriend and support black political leaders and to stand by them regardless of the implications and threats to himself and his family. His courage was a inspiration.' - Donald Woods, author of 'Biko: Cry Freedom'. The amazing story of Pogrund's thirty years as a journalist in South Africa and his relationships with leaders such as Nelson Mandela.', When Benjamin Pogrund, one of South Africa's most distinguished journalists, first began his career as a young reporter in the 1950s, "There had been little reason at that stage to believe that anything revolutionary was about to start." As the "African affairs reporter," and then deputy editor, it was Pogrund who first brought the words of black leaders like Robert Sobukwe and Nelson Mandela to the pages of South Africa's leading newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. This was the period of apartheid in South Africa and for most of the next thirty years, the Rand Daily Mail was the country's liberal white voice against the tyranny of the Afrikaner Nationalist government. A riveting memoir and a complex commentary on apartheid and freedom of the press, War of Words offers an insider's perspective on one of the most turbulent, and arguably one of the most significant, periods in modern history.
LC Classification NumberPN5476.P64A3 1998
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