February 8: Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela

With a foreword by President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela's Conversations With Myself fraws on the author's personal archive of never-before-seen papers to offer unique access to the private world of the incomparable world leader, who worked from prison to end apartheid in South Africa.

"[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him." - from the foreword by President Barack Obama

Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. After a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography.

From letters written in the darkest hours of his 27 years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations With Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure.

Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost 70 hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint.

An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations With Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.

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