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100	1		_aRusesabagina, Paul _d, 1955-
245	1	3	_aAn ordinary man _b: an autobiography _c/ Paul Rusesabagina with Tom Zoellner
260			_aNew York _b: Viking _c, 2006.
300			_axvi, 207 p. _b: maps _c; 22 cm.
520			_aThe riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina , the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina, the Oskar Schindler of Africa, refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside with machetes. An Ordinary Manexplores what the Academy Award-nominated film Hotel Rwandacould not: the inner life of the man who became one of the most prominent public faces of that terrible conflict. Rusesabagina tells for the first time the full story of his life, growing up as the son of a rural farmer, the child of a mixed marriage, his extraordinary career path which led him to become the first Rwandan manager of the Belgian-owned Hotel Milles Collines, all of which contributed to his heroic actions in the face of such horror. He will also bring the reader inside the hote l for those one hundred terrible days depicted in the film, relating the anguish of those who watched as their loved ones were hacked to pieces and the betrayal that he felt as a result of the UN's refusal to help at this time of crisis. Including never-before-reported details of the Rwandan genocide, An Ordinary Man, is sure to become a classic of tolerance literature, joining such books as Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List, Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, and Elie Wiesel's Night. Paul Rusesabagina's autobiography is the story of one man who did not let fear get the better of him, a man who found within himself a vast reserve of courage and bravery, and showed the world how 'one ordinary man' can become a hero.
600	1	0	_aRusesabagina, Paul _d, 1955-
650		0	_aHuman right workers _v--Biography
650		0	_aGenocide _x--Rwanda
651		0	_aRwanda _x--Biography
651		0	_aRwanda _x--History _x--Civil war, 1994
700	1		_aZoellner, Tom
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