Detecting the Scam: Nelson Mandela's Gift is a product of our times. It offers an intriguing and distinctive perspective on recent high-profile scams by studying them through the lens of Nelson Mandela's life, skills, and moral authority. In his readable, conversational, storyteller's style, Author Friedlander describes the scam as a negotiating duel between the scammer and his mark. As he looks at Mandela's life and historic negotiations to end apartheid, he extracts 10 Powers of Negotiation to help detect and avoid scams. Using his own Duck School of Common Sense and his Subway Test, he...