Radio New Zealand
Tuesday, 28 November, 10:28: Book Review (duration: 8?28?).
Crystal Beavis reviews ‘Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu’ by John Allen.
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Montreal Gazette, Canada – Dec 2, 2006
Rabble Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu, by John Allen (Free Press, 481 pages, $35.99), focuses on one of South Africa’s greatest icons, and it’s helpful in understanding why South Africa is still struggling with the after-effects of apartheid.
As much a history of South Africa’s apartheid regime as the personal story of Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and retired Anglican archbishop, this book serves as a reminder of the price to be paid when governments exploit and abuse a population.
This biography is “a substantial contribution to social history,” says Cape Times reviewer Gerald Shaw. “It suggests that moral values and courage in proclaiming and living such values can be more powerful in human affairs than is often believed.”
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A review by David Russell, former bishop of Grahamstown, published in Gateway, the journal of St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, in December 2006. Click on the headline above to pull up the full page and click on the PDF to read the review.
Interview on the Chet Curtis Report, nightly news and interview program, New England Cable News, on November 16, 2006:
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National Public Radio
December 5, 2006 · Journalist John Allen wrote Rabble-Rouser for Peace, an authorized biography of South African theologian and activist Desmond Tutu. Allen discusses the book with Tony Cox.
Listen to the interview by going to the following page and pressing the “Listen” button:
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The Book Review, by Timothy Twidle
John Allen’s truly magnificent book makes for riveting reading. I was invited to the launch of the book in Cape Town but was unable to attend.
However my review copy from Random House arrived on the self same afternoon, Thursday September 28. I opened the book and began reading right there and then, became utterly engrossed and turned the last page on Sunday afternoon!
‘Rabble-Rouser for Peace’ is a consummate work of scholarship that charts the rise and rise of Desmond Tutu through the hierarchy …
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“Rabble-Rouser for Peace” lays bare “Tutu’s warts,” writes Kevin Ritchie, in a review published in The Star, Johannesburg on October 12, 2006, but Tutu does not emerge from this treatment diminished in any way.
The book “will make sure we never forget to appreciate Tutu’s contribution to this country…”
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10 November 2006
Financial Mail – BOOK OF THE WEEK
Mighty fighter in a mitre
By Richard Steyn
Desmond Tutu may rightfully be described as the conscience of the nation.
It is not necessary to agree with all his arguments, approve of his occasional histrionics or share his unbounded optimism to recognise that no-one has stood up more consistently for his principles or tried harder to heal the wounds of racism than this turbulent Anglican prelate. Unlike the sainted Mandela, Tutu has never needed to answer to a political constituency. His lodestar has always been his Christian …
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Interview: Air America Radio, “Politically Direct with David Bender“, October 5, 2006.
Direct link to MP3 file of the interview: on Air America’s website.