Dinner with Mugabe : the untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant

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Title:

Author:

Holland, Heidi.

ISBN:

9780143025573

Personal Author:

Holland, Heidi.

Publication Information:

Johannesburg ; New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

Physical Description:

xxi, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Abstract:

A biography of Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, charting the course of his career over the course of thirty years, seeking to understand how the freedom fighter of 1975 was transformed into a tyrant whose failings and excesses have had a devastating effect on his country and its people.

Personal Subject:

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924--Psychology.

Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-

Subject Term:

Presidents -- Zimbabwe -- Psychology.

Geographic Term:

Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1980- -- Psychological aspects.

Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Psychological aspects.

Electronic Access:

Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25148

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Summary

"The most intimate portrait yet produced of Zimbabwe's clever yet brutal leader." - The Economist

With plunging life expectancy, soaring inflation, and unemployment, repression, and starvation fueling a mass exodus, Zimbabwe is a nation in crisis. Its president, Robert Mugabe-once lauded for his heroics as a guerilla leader who fought against white-minority rule in the 1960s- is now seen as the man who ruined the country and cast shame on the African continent. Beginning with a dinner shared with Mugabe the freedom fighter and ending in a searching interview with Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president more than thirty years later, Heidi Holland's incisive and timely investigation charts Mugabe's gradual self- destruction and probes the mystery of Africa's loyalty to one of its worst dictators.