Amy Biehl's Last Home: A Bright Life, a Tragic Death, and a Journey of Reconciliation in South Africa

Name: Amy Biehl's Last Home: A Bright Life, a Tragic Death, and a Journey of Reconciliation in South Africa
Brand: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
SKU: 9780821423219-G
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By Gish, Steven D.

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In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women's rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa's most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amy's parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black township where she was killed, but supported amnesty for her killers and hired two of the young men to work for the Amy Biehl Foundation. The Biehls were hailed as heroes by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and many others in South Africa and the United States-but their path toward healing was neither quick nor easy.
Granted unrestricted access to the Biehl family's papers, Steven Gish brings Amy and the Foundation to life in ways that have eluded previous authors. He is the first to place Biehl's story in its full historical context, while also presenting a gripping portrait of this remarkable young woman and the aftermath of her death across two continents.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 392
Release Date:: 2018-06-13
Publication Date:: 2018-06-13
Publisher:: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0821423215
ISBN13:: 9780821423219
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 673 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 236 cm
Thickness:: 32 cm

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