Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom the Aut - Hardcover

Nelson Mandela

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316880205 ISBN 13: 9780316880206

Publisher: Little Brown Company, 1996

Synopsis

Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. The foster son of a Tembu chief, Mandela grew up straddling two worlds: the traditional culture of his tribe and the hostile reality of a white-dominated nation-state. His pivotal role in the anti-apartheid movement led to a life underground and imprisonment for his political beliefs and activities. A triumphant sequence of events then followed which climaxed in April 1994, with the appointment of Mandela not only as the first-ever black South African president, but as the first man to govern a democratic, multi-racial South African society. This work is Mandela's own account of his and his country's epic journey. Abridged and illuminated with dramatic photographs, this new edition chronicles the man, his land and his people.

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Review:

The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished. Long Walk to Freedom also discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the most trying circumstances--a spirit in which just about everybody can find something to admire.

About the Author:

Nelson Mandela became the democratically elected, first black president of the Republic of South Africa on 27 April 1994.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0316880205
• ISBN 13: 9780316880206
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208