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Madiba a to Z

The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela

Madiba a to Z( )
Author: Schechter, Danny
ISBN:978-1-60980-559-3
Publication Date:Nov 2013
Publisher:Seven Stories Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

16 years went into the making of the forthcoming feature film Long Walk To Freedom, a fictionalised biopic based on Mandela's bestselling autobiography. Danny Schechter, who has spent 40 years getting to know Mandela, was asked to make a non-fiction documentary about the filmed biopic. This unique title complements the feature, the documentary, and Mandela's life itself. Madiba A to Z was born out of in-depth research, interviews and informal meetings with Mandela himself and the...
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Book Details
Pages:274
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Political
History / Africa / South / Republic Of South Africa
Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.7 x 8.53 x 1.06 Inches
Book Weight:0.986 Pounds
Author Biography
Schechter, Danny (Author)
Daniel Isaac Schechter was born in Manhattan, New York on June 27, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University. While there, he organized rent strikes in Harlem and marched for civil rights in Washington, D. C. and in the South. He received a master's degree from the London School of Economics, where he became active in the antiapartheid movement.

In 1971, he joined the Boston rock station WBCN-FM, where he found a following as Danny Schechter, the News Dissector. As a producer of the ABC News magazine 20/20, his work won two Emmy Awards. In 1988, he and Rory O'Connor founded Globalvision, which produced Rights and Wrongs: Human Rights Television and South Africa Now, a weekly public affairs program that won a George Polk Award in 1990.

During his lifetime, he wrote 17 books including The More You Watch the Less You Know: News Wars/(Sub)Merged Hopes/Media Adventures and Madiba A-Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela. He also made more than 30 films, including six documentaries on Nelson Mandela and another entitled WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception. He died of pancreatic cancer on March 19, 2015 at the age of 72.

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