| War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist Contributor(s): Pogrund, Benjamin (Author), Evans, Harold (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1888363711 ISBN-13: 9781888363715 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: This chronicle of South Africa's leading newspaper during 30 years of apartheid by one of the country's most distinguished journalists is also a riveting memoir and commentary on freedom of the press. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Social Science | Media Studies - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97-50423 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.33" W x 9.3" (1.44 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |