Week of July 21, 2008

News Item: Former South African President, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nelson Mandela celebrated his 90th birthday last week. He was recently removed from a United States terrorism watch list. A bill, sponsored by U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Bob Corker (R-TN), and signed by President Bush in early July, called for the removal of Mandela from the list.

In His Own Words
By Nelson Mandela. Little, Brown and Co., 2003
Call Number: DT1974 .M338 2003

An Irresistible Vision: Mandela and the End of Apartheid (DVD)
BBCW Productions. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004
Call Number: DT1949 .M35 M3623 2004 (Media Center)

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By Nelson Mandela. Phelps-Stokes Institute for African, African-American, and American Indian Affairs, 1990
Call Number: DT1949 .M35 A3 1994

Mandela: The Authorized Portrait
By Mac Maharaj et al. Andrews McMeel Pub., 2006
Call Number: DT1974 .M348 2006 (At Treasure Coast Campus – May be borrowed through ILL services)

Mandela: A Critical Life
By Tom Lodge. Oxford University Press, 2006
Call Number: DT1974 .L63 2006 (Also available online through NetLibrary)

Mandela: From Prison to President (VHS)
Directed by Dominic Allan. Films for the Humanities, 1995
Call Number: VH 3959 (Media Center)

Mandela the Living Legend (DVD)
Directed by Dominic Allan. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004
Call Number: DT1949 .M35 M3622 2004 (Media Center)

No Easy Walk to Freedom
By Nelson Mandela. Heinemann, 1973
Call Number: DT763 .M35 1973

One Nation, One Country
By Nelson Mandela. Phelps-Stokes Institute for African, African-American, and American Indian Affairs, 1990
Call Number: DT1757 .M34 1990

A Prisoner in the Garden: The Nelson Mandela Foundation
Viking Studio, 2006
Call Number: DT1974 .P75 2006

The Struggle is My Life: His Speeches and Writings Brought Together with HIstorical Documents and Accounts of Mandela in Prison by Fellow Prisoners
By Nelson Mandela. Pathfinder Press, 1986
Call Number: DT779.95 .M36 A57 1986