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David James Smith:
talks to Alex Bates:
Young Mandela
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Booking opens 1st July 2010
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
In his latest book, Young Mandela (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, June 2010), David James Smith has set out to reevaluate Mandela’s entire political and personal life leading up to his conviction. It is the Mandela many have never seen: not the dignified, elderly statesman but the committed freedom fighter who left his wife and children to terrorise racist white South Africa and go on the run from the police in the early 1960s.
Young Mandela considers Mandela not from the perspective of the lionized president but of the young man with everything still to achieve.
David James Smith is a journalist for The Sunday Times Magazine. His previous books are The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case, All About Jill: The Life and Death of Jill Dando, Supper With the Crippens and One Morning in Sarajevo. He lives in Lewes, East Sussex with his partner and their four children.
Alex Bates is an eminent UN international prosecutor, who worked extensively on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
In his latest book, Young Mandela (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, June 2010), David James Smith has set out to reevaluate Mandela’s entire political and personal life leading up to his conviction. It is the Mandela many have never seen: not the dignified, elderly statesman but the committed freedom fighter who left his wife and children to terrorise racist white South Africa and go on the run from the police in the early 1960s.
Young Mandela considers Mandela not from the perspective of the lionized president but of the young man with everything still to achieve.
David James Smith is a journalist for The Sunday Times Magazine. His previous books are The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case, All About Jill: The Life and Death of Jill Dando, Supper With the Crippens and One Morning in Sarajevo. He lives in Lewes, East Sussex with his partner and their four children.
Alex Bates is an eminent UN international prosecutor, who worked extensively on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.