Rabble-Rouser For Peace

RABBLE-ROUSER FOR PEACE will be the first book to tell the full story of how a boy from South Africa's poverty-stricken black townships became one of the world's best-known religious figures, a moral icon to those who work for peace, and a public figure with a place in history, as well as a unique capacity to communicate warmth, humour and compassion. On the one hand Tutu is a man of action who has literally kept the peace between warring factions on the streets of South Africa with nothing more than a megaphone - and on the other he is also a contemplative, thinking person able to tap into depths of spirituality and serenity for which so many people today are looking.

Working from primary sources, including first-hand interviews with such contemporary figures as Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk, Bill Clinton, as well as leading church figures in the UK, John Allen is certainly the best person to write this book (see below). There is no doubt that it will be the definitive biography of Tutu for a generation to come, and in print on the Rider list for many years.