About this Book

Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes.

How did the “Architect of Apartheid” grow his ideology of racial segregation into a comprehensive system and a policy for the future? The Anxieties of White Supremacy: Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset explores his intellectual development and academic career prior to entering politics.