Interview on the Chet Curtis Report, nightly news and interview program, New England Cable News, on November 16, 2006:

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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.

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http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/11/10/News/Journalist.Traces.Life.Of.African.Leader.Tutu-2452925.shtml
Yousef Abu Gharbieh
Posted: 11/10/06

Few religious leaders have caused as much political change as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

South African journalist John Allen presented his latest book “Rabble Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu” to a packed auditorium of students and faculty at the Divinity School Thursday night.

Allen outlined Tutu’s life story to the audience, from his obscure roots to his position as a religious icon and anti-Apartheid leader in South Africa.

Tutu’s unique oratorical style and talent for mobilizing crowds helped him earn a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, …
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http://www.sadirectory.co.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=881
South Africa Times, London
Written by Elizma Nolte
Tuesday, 17 October 2006

We speak to John Allen, author of Desmond Tutu’s authorised biography, which was launched in London last week.

It was only natural that John Allen should be the person to write the authorised biography of Desmond Tutu. As his press secretary, he spent 13 years monitoring the former Archbishop’s every public spoken word.

When Tutu became Archbishop of Cape Town in 1987, Allen was perfectly placed for the job. As a journalist, he had reported on religion for The Star, before switching careers to work for a journalism union.

It …
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http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/article.aspx?ID=301350
Sunday Times, Johannesburg
Posted Oct 30, 2006
SHELF LIFE
Michele Magwood

I worked out afterwards that it was precisely as Trevor Manuel was speaking that my husband was being robbed at gunpoint a few kilometres away.

Manuel had taken the microphone at the launch of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s biography, Rabble-rouser for Peace, and had launched into a stinging attack on the younger generation of South Africans, for their “exceedingly vulgar” ways, their greed and their lack of appreciation for the older generation — like Tutu “who lives in service of God and of his people”. Younger South Africans, he …
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http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=2286608
The Weekender, Business Day
October 14, 2006
Desmond Tutu’s biographer defends himself against an accusation that he was too harsh, in an interview with REHANA ROSSOUW

RABBLE–ROUSER FOR PEACE
John Allen
Random House

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu’s official biographer John Allen worked for him for 13 years and was treated as a member of the Tutu family, but he does not believe this disqualified him from the task of narrating “the arch’s” life story.

“The first thing he said to me when I broached the idea was that he thought I would do something when I retired,” Allen says.

“Then he asked if it would …
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http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/articles/42/00/acns4205.cfm

More than 600 people gathered at Trinity Episcopal Church, Wall Street, in New York City on October 19 for a panel discussion with Nobel Peace laureate and Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, and his former press secretary, South African journalist John Allen.

The topic of the discussion centered around Allen’s newly released biography about Tutu, “Rabble-Rouser for Peace.” Moderated by Dateline NBC correspondent and Trinity Church member, John Hockenberry, the discussion was webcast live and is archived for on-demand streaming at Trinity Church’s website.

In recounting his relationship with Tutu, Allen …
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Rev’d Up

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Looks Back, Definitely Not in Anger

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/08/AR2006100801015.html

By Lynne Duke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 9, 2006; C01

NEW YORK

The cleric is laughing. He laughs a lot. He can’t help it. Desmond Tutu is tickled by his life, his faith, his God, so the giggles just bubble out, cresting sometimes in a hilariously showy cackle. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, the David to the old Goliath that was apartheid, Tutu can be seized with this joy at just about any time.

He might be talking about weighty issues like the moral imperative, …
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http://www.sundayherald.com/58735
Sunday Herald – 29 October 2006 (Scotland)
By George Rosie

IT is easy to forget just how mind-numbingly petty South Africa’s system of “separate development” could be. Not only were the country’s non-white people denied the right to vote, live where they wanted, and forced to carry internal passports, but they existed under a burden of trivial regulation that must have sapped many spirits. That apartheid survived as long as it did – from 1948 to 1994 – speaks volumes about the forbearance of the black and “coloured” population of 20th …
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/18/safrica.tutu.reut/

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) — He took on the apartheid government and was South Africa’s first black bishop. He lambastes presidents and likes to party with the stars. And at 75, Desmond Tutu still cannot keep quiet.

“Rabble-rouser for peace,” a new authorized biography of one of South Africa’s best-loved citizens, paints a picture of a man who revels in the limelight and adores the trappings of celebrity, but spends up to seven hours a day in silent prayer.

The book by Tutu’s former press secretary John Allen traces Tutu’s life from his humble …
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