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PLAYING THE ENEMY: NELSON MANDELA AND THE GAME THAT MADE A NATION John Carlin (New York: Penguin Group, 2008), 320 pages.
John Carlin's work of non-fiction, Playing the Enemy, offers a refreshing portrait of the human effort behind the South African transition from apartheid. Carlin offers a novel perspective on this oft-described political movement by looking at the 1995 rugby World Cup championship, an unlikely denouement that united a people.
By focusing much of his book on the passion of sport rather than the personality...