| Author |
Godwin, Peter, 1957-
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| Title |
The fear : Robert Mugabe and the martyrdom of Zimbabwe / Peter Godwin. |
| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| OCLC |
548642134 |
| ISBN |
9780316051736 |
|
031605173X |
|
9780316051873 |
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031605187X |
| ISBN/ISSN |
40019163781 |
| Publisher |
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2011. |
| Description |
371 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924-2019
|
Other
Subject heading/s |
Mugabe, Robert Gabriel, 1924- (OCoLC)fst00058993
|
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Since 1980 |
|
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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| LC Subject heading/s |
Zimbabwe -- Politics and government -- 1980-
|
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Zimbabwe -- Economic conditions -- 1980-
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Zimbabwe -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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Other
Subject heading/s |
Zimbabwe. (OCoLC)fst01209419
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| Contents |
Searching for sky -- The fist of empowerment -- A nation of gentlemen -- People smell power and run to where it is -- The last goats -- No oil to give -- The tears of a clown -- Down the rabbit hole -- Birgit's bad hair day -- Boys to men -- My blood is too heavy -- Chronicles of Narnia -- What fear smells like -- Dreamland -- You can never go home again -- Wounds of the heart -- Defense injuries -- Alone, unarmed, afraid -- It's hard to play cards with two broken arms -- A regime on the rampage -- Canon war -- They laugh while you burn -- The final battle for total control -- Where do tears come from? -- Like a candle in a dungeon -- The day of the wildebeest -- After forty years in the desert -- Lassoing the moon -- Don't trade me for anything -- Blood diamonds -- Witchwood -- The world's oldest leader -- If ever we should all die, it will be forgotten now -- The ordeal tree -- Dynamics of distress -- The cutter-of-clouds -- Bullets to be paid for -- Behind the blindfold -- Delicious -- The hook -- Men without knees -- The axe forgets but not the tree. |
| Review |
In this remarkable look inside Mugabe's isolated yet restive Zimbabwe, journalist Godwin and his sister, Georgina, return to their childhood home and tour the economically devastated and state-terrorized cities, farms, and diamond mines at considerable personal risk, gathering candid interviews with dispossessed farmers, marginalized elites, and former insiders to cast a light on the workings of Mugabe's dictatorship and psychology, and the "fear factor" crucial to his control. |
| General note |
Includes index. |
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