Conversations With Myself
Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, these precious and previously private documents have been gathered together into one incredible volume that offers an unprecedented insight into his life. Conversations with Myself draws on Mandela's personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the inner world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written on Robben Island and in other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the post-apartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency – a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together in a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandela's first stirrings of political conscience to his galvanising role on the world stage, Conversations with Myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice. While other books have recounted Mandela's life from the vantage of the present, Conversations with Myself allows for the first time unhindered insight into the human side of the icon.
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Review:
'The book is intensely moving, raw and unmediated... mixing the prosaic with the momentous' --Peter Godwin, Observer
'Gathered from letters and bits of Mandela's unpublished autobiography, this book offers fresh and moving insights into the man behind the symbol...' --R W Johnson, Sunday Times Culture Magazine
'The documents present a remarkably candid picture of the former ANC leader... [and] the book also reveals flashes of Mr Mandela's mischievous humour. While being treated in hospital for tuberculosis, he was presented with a breakfast of bacon and eggs which a guard warned him was contrary to the order from his doctor to eat a cholesterol-free diet. The now 92-year-old freedom fighter replied: "Today, I am prepared to die; I am going to eat it."' --Independent
'Even at this distance in time, it is painful to read the prison diaries and letters that so starkly reveal Mandela's depths of loneliness and isolation ... Mandela's toughness, patience and epic capacity for forgiveness and conciliation all shine through in this collection.' --Daily Mail Review
'An intimate journey from the first stirrings of his political conscience to his galvanising role on the world stage, offering a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice - direct, clear, private.' --Oxford Times
'I found myself drawn into this well-organised and annotated compilation of personal files, correspondence, prison notes... this collection reveals the man for what he is: extraordinarily self-disciplined and with a capacity to forgive his persecutors.' --Daily Telegraph
'Many of Mandela's letters to Winnie, his children and friends were intercepted and kept by the prison authorities. Here we read them for the first time, and they are very poignant and personal... Above all, it is an absorbing read both for ardent Mandelaphiles or the uninitiated alike.' --The Independent
'The picture that emerges is of a man who has borne his burdens with immense dignity...maintains a need for respect and doesn't like to put his deepest emotions on display - although some of his letters from prison to then-wife Winnie are heartbreaking.' --Metro
'This book will reduce the reader to both rapture and tears... deeply moving' --FT Weekend Life and Arts
'When a hero of our times opens his private archives of diaries, notebooks, letters, lists, doodles and conversations, the world is bound to be intrigued. This book does not disappoint.' --New Internationalist
'The world's greatest statesman reveals, in this remarkably candid autobiography...how to live a generous, meaningful life...He also captures the very essence of humanity.' --Daily Mirror
'Some of the diary extracts are tantalising ... these are nuggets which demonstrate someone with all the characteristics he commended, and confirm that South Africa's messiah is a very humble and very human being.' --Methodist Recorder
'Conversations With Myself is outstanding ... its collection of letters and meditations, together with its thorough index and appendix, belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the nature of power and resistance.' --International Herald Tribune
Review:
'Gathered from letters and bits of Mandela's unpublished autobiography, this book offers fresh and moving insights into the man behind the symbol...' --R W Johnson, Sunday Times Culture Magazine
'The documents present a remarkably candid picture of the former ANC leader... [and] the book also reveals flashes of Mr Mandela's mischievous humour. While being treated in hospital for tuberculosis, he was presented with a breakfast of bacon and eggs which a guard warned him was contrary to the order from his doctor to eat a cholesterol-free diet. The now 92-year-old freedom fighter replied: "Today, I am prepared to die; I am going to eat it."' --Independent
'Even at this distance in time, it is painful to read the prison diaries and letters that so starkly reveal Mandela's depths of loneliness and isolation ... Mandela's toughness, patience and epic capacity for forgiveness and conciliation all shine through in this collection.' --Daily Mail Review
'An intimate journey from the first stirrings of his political conscience to his galvanising role on the world stage, offering a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice - direct, clear, private.' --Oxford Times
'I found myself drawn into this well-organised and annotated compilation of personal files, correspondence, prison notes... this collection reveals the man for what he is: extraordinarily self-disciplined and with a capacity to forgive his persecutors.' --Daily Telegraph
'Many of Mandela's letters to Winnie, his children and friends were intercepted and kept by the prison authorities. Here we read them for the first time, and they are very poignant and personal... Above all, it is an absorbing read both for ardent Mandelaphiles or the uninitiated alike.' --The Independent
'The picture that emerges is of a man who has borne his burdens with immense dignity...maintains a need for respect and doesn't like to put his deepest emotions on display - although some of his letters from prison to then-wife Winnie are heartbreaking.' --Metro
'This book will reduce the reader to both rapture and tears... deeply moving' --FT Weekend Life and Arts
'When a hero of our times opens his private archives of diaries, notebooks, letters, lists, doodles and conversations, the world is bound to be intrigued. This book does not disappoint.' --New Internationalist
'The world's greatest statesman reveals, in this remarkably candid autobiography...how to live a generous, meaningful life...He also captures the very essence of humanity.' --Daily Mirror
'Some of the diary extracts are tantalising ... these are nuggets which demonstrate someone with all the characteristics he commended, and confirm that South Africa's messiah is a very humble and very human being.' --Methodist Recorder
'Conversations With Myself is outstanding ... its collection of letters and meditations, together with its thorough index and appendix, belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the nature of power and resistance.' --International Herald Tribune
'Unflinchingly candid ... a book that breaks the heart and then makes it sing.' (The Observer)
'Intensely moving, raw and unmediated, told in real time with all the changes in perspective that brings, over the years, mixing the prosaic with the momentous. Health concerns, dreams, political initiatives spill out together, to provide the fullest picture yet of Mandela.' (The Observer)
'Intensely moving, raw and unmediated, told in real time with all the changes in perspective that brings, over the years, mixing the prosaic with the momentous. Health concerns, dreams, political initiatives spill out together, to provide the fullest picture yet of Mandela.' (The Observer)
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- PublisherBolinda/Macmillan audio
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1509802606
- ISBN 13 9781509802609
- BindingAudio CD
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