[ecrea] new book: Selling Apartheid - South Africa's global propaganda war

NEW FROM PLUTO PRESS:

SELLING APARTHEID: SOUTH AFRICA’S GLOBAL PROPAGANDA WAR

By Ron Nixon

Available here: http://bit.ly/2bl6glI

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About the book:

Selling Apartheid lays bare the global propaganda war waged by the South 
African government in the attempt to bolster support for their apartheid 
regime. The world-wide campaign consisted of the government burnishing 
its image overseas, selling apartheid to the US and the UK in particular.

Costing around $100 million annually, and run with vigorous efficiency 
for fifty years, the campaign drew in an elaborate network of 
supporters, including global corporations with business operations in 
South Africa, conservative religious organisations, and an unlikely 
coalition of liberal black clergy and anti-communist black conservatives 
aligned with right-wing Cold War politicians.

Journalist Ron Nixon brings together interviews with key players, and 
thousands of previously unreleased records from US, British and South 
African archives, to provide a fast-paced and historically rich account 
of a little-known history.

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About the author:

Ron Nixon is a Washington Correspondent for the New York Times. He is a 
visiting associate in the Department of Media and Journalism Studies at 
the University of Witwatersrand, where he teaches investigative 
reporting and data journalism.

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Praise for Selling Apartheid:

‘This is an important story that needed to be told about the apartheid 
government’s global lobbying effort that tried to whitewash its 
reprehensible policy of racial separation’ – Eleanor Holmes Norton, US 
House of Representatives

‘A major contribution to the scholarship on the apartheid era and the 
struggle for liberation in South Africa ... One cannot understand the 
South African freedom movement without understanding the issues that 
Nixon so effectively presents to the reader’ – Bill Fletcher Jr, former 
president of TransAfrica

‘This is a tale of intrigue, rich characters and large chequebooks, 
played out in all the Western capitals’ – Anton Harber, Caxton Professor 
of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand

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READ A EXTRACT:http://bit.ly/2bomxjy

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Paperback | 9780745399140 | £14.99 / $24 / €20

Kindle | 9781786800039 | £14.99 / $24 / €20

EPUB | 9781786800022 | £14.99 / $24 / €20

PDF |9781786800015 | £60 / $90

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