Author | Allen Drury |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Publisher | Trident Press |
Publication date | 1967 |
Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
Pages | 465 |
ISBN | 1-299-27312-2 |
A Very Strange Society: A Journey to the Heart of South Africa is a 1967 non-fiction book by Allen Drury.[1][2][3] It explores the then-evolving government and culture of the Republic of South Africa.[4]
Combining newspaper articles, interviews and government edicts, Drury presents the "achievements and failures" of the new republic, which was founded in 1961.[4]
In November 1967, Kirkus Reviews wrote:
Utilizing a pro and con format, Drury presents a rather convincing case why a minority of whites should be in a position to totally dominate and manipulate a vastly larger non-white population. Although he scores Afrikaan provincialism, police-state methods, and obduracy, it is done in a manner that suggests redemption will come from the purging of traits rather than ideology. In a sense, this book derives its lethality from what it most certainly isn't — crackpot and extremist. On the other hand, it most certainly fails as a dispassionate and objective handling of the South African dilemma.[4]