{"product_id":"mandela-xolela-mangcu-9781350522121","title":"Mandela: The Aristocrat and the Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first biography of Nelson Mandela written by an African scholar, t\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehis groundbreaking book offers a radically de-mythologized take on a global\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e icon of anticolonial liberation struggles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeading sociologist Xolela Mangcu draws on original interviews and archival research - as well as on his own unique understanding of the complexities of Black South African culture - to offer an important corrective account of Mandela's identity, character, and political career. Mangcu not only sets the record straight about Mandela's Thembu, rather than Xhosa, heritage, but also uncovers a fundamental political pragmatism Mandela developed thanks to his family's strategic alliances with colonialists and through his own Victorian-style education at leading British mission schools. What emerges is a Mandela whose life story belongs less to the realm of hagiography and more to the realm of real-world struggle, with all the contradictions it entails.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xolela Mangcu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350522120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350522121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Xolela Mangcu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48520157495551,"sku":"9781350522121","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1abca14-e595-47b8-a183-3e7cfceaa706.jpg?v=1778741095","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mandela-xolela-mangcu-9781350522121","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}