TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giliomee,Hermann
TI  - The Last Afrikaner Leaders: A Supreme Test of Power
T2  - Reconsiderations in Southern African History Series
SN  - 9780813934952
AV  - JQ1998.N2 -- G55 2013eb 
U1  - 320.968 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - National Party (South Africa)--History--20th century
KW  - Politicians--South Africa--20th century
KW  - Apartheid--South Africa--20th century
KW  - Power (Social sciences)--South Africa
KW  - South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1994
KW  - South Africa--Race relations--20th century--Political aspects--History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front -- Contents -- Contents -- A Tragic Dilemma -- An Extraordinary Country -- An Extraordinary Professor and the 'Cape Nats' -- 'The Most Terrific Clash of Interests Imaginable': Hendrik Verwoerd's Response -- Denying Black South Africans Citizenship: John Vorster's Empire -- Moving out into Africa: John Vorster's Foreign Schemes -- PW Botha and 'Power Sharing without Losing Control' -- A Crossing Suspended: PW Botha's Rubicon -- Van Zyl Slabbert: The Golden Boy and the Black Prince -- 'The Risk of Not Taking Risks': Ending Empire -- Time for a 'Quantum Leap': FW de Klerk's Venture -- 'Paddling into Dangerous Rapids': Drafting a New Constitution -- A Record of Understanding -- A wary military -- Negotiating the NP out of power -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- About -- Index
N2  - Drawing on primary sources and personal interviews, Giliomee offers a fresh and stimulating political history that attempts not to condemn but to understand why the last Afrikaner leaders did what they did, and why their own policies ultimately failed them. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Reconsiderations in Southern African History
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