TY - BOOK AU - Carlin,John TI - Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation SN - 9780143117155 (pbk) AV - 545 DT 1974 M271Ca 2009 U1 - 968.06/5 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - Mandela, Nelson, KW - Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla, KW - Springboks (Rugby team) KW - History KW - Springboks (Equipo de rugby) KW - Historia KW - Political prisoners KW - South Africa KW - Biography KW - Presidents KW - Presidentes KW - Sudáfrica KW - Biografías KW - Presos políticos KW - Paz KW - Politics and government KW - 20th century KW - Política y gobierno KW - Siglo XX N1 - Originally published : Playing the enemy. New York : Penguin Press, 2008; Include bibliographical references (p. [265]) and index; Breakfast in Houghton -- Minister of Justice -- Separate amenities -- Bagging the croc -- Different planets -- Ayatollah Mandela -- Tiger king -- Mask -- Bitter-enders -- Romancing the general -- "Address their hearts" -- Captain and the president -- Springbok serenade -- Silvermine -- Doubting Thomases -- Number six jersey -- "Nelson! Nelson!" -- Blood in the throat -- Love thine enemy N2 - After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: Use the national rugby team, the Springboks--long an embodiment of white supremacist rule--to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host the 1995 World Cup. The string of wins that followed not only defied the odds, but capped Mandela's miraculous effort to bring South Africans together in a hard-won, enduring bond ER -