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RIVONIA’S CHILDREN
By Glenn Frankel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 339 pages, $25
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel tells the bracing, often overlooked story of Jewish South African activists who allied themselves with the African National Congress in the 1960s to oppose apartheid. In a book that sometimes reads like a historical thriller, Frankel shows us the 1963 police raid on activists’ headquarters in the white suburb of Rivonia, and the imprisonments and trial that followed. Frankel’s evenhanded account portrays the activists as both “heroic and self-destructive.”