The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.
Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule.
He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life - an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
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Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom, draws on the South African leader's personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence and audio recordings to present a collection of inspirational and historically significant quotations spanning more than 60 years.
The authorized record of Nelson Mandela's most inspiring and historically important quotations, Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time.
This collection — gathered from privileged access to Mandela's vast personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence and audio recordings — features more than three hundred quotations and includes his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
These inspirational quotations, organized into four sections — Struggle, Victory, Wisdom and Future — are both universal and deeply personal. We see Mandela's sense of humor, his loneliness and despair, his thoughts on fatherhood and the reluctant leader who had no choice but to become the man history demanded.
"A good pen can also remind us of the happiest moments in our lives, bring noble ideas into our dens, our blood and our souls. It can turn tragedy into hope and victory," Nelson Mandela, from a letter to Zindzi Mandela, written on Robben Island, February 10, 1980
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Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela during the post-apartheid years when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his greatest triumphs. Carlin witnessed history as Mandela was released from prison after twenty-seven years and ultimately ascended to the presidency of his strife-torn country.
Drawing on exclusive conversations with Mandela and countless interviews with people who were close to him, Carlin has crafted an account of a man who was neither saint nor superman. Mandela's seismic political victories were won at the cost of much personal unhappiness and disappointment.
Knowing Mandela: A Personal Portrait offers an intimate understanding of one of the most towering and remarkable figures of our age.
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Illustrated and aimed at readers ages 4 through 8, author Kadir Nelson presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
Booklist's Hazel Rochman says, "Starting with the full-page cover portrait, this glowing picture-book biography offers a celebratory introduction to Nelson Mandela's life for young readers.
"Clear, free verse and handsome, unframed paintings follow the iconic leader from his tribal childhood and his work as a young city lawyer through his political leadership against the brutality of apartheid, his long imprisonment and then the triumph of his election as president of his country.
"The story doesn't mention conflicts both political (the splits in the anti-apartheid movement) and personal (the bitter rift with his daughters), as well as the continuing inequality South Africans face.
"Still, words and images bring close the cruel apartheid segregation in daily life, including one double-page spread of Cape Town's glorious beaches with the sign that reads White Area. Then there is the view of prisoners on Robben Island hammering rocks into dust.
"In contrast, the final pages of Nelson Mandela show today's nonsegregated beaches and people of all races standing together free at last. A long final note fills in more.
With an internationally beloved leader as its subject and a multi-award-winning artist as its creator, this title is sure to be on every must-purchase list."
Kadir Nelson's award-winning books include Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, which won the Coretta Scott King Award and was an ALA Notable Children's Book; and Just the Two of Us by Will Smith, which received an NAACP Image Award. Mr. Nelson lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and two daughters.
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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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Now a major motion picture, the bestselling memoir of Nelson Mandela, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.
Since Nelson Mandela's triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela is the story of his life - from the early development of his political consciousness to his eventful quarter-century behind bars to his momentous victory in South Africa's first-ever multiracial elections - and an epic account of struggle, setback, renewed hope and ultimate triumph.
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Time magazine editor Richard Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela on his bestselling autobiography, distills Mandela's wisdom into 15 vital life lessons that have the power to deepen lives.
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before.
Now Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. For nearly three years, including the critical period when Mandela moved South Africa toward the first democratic elections in its history, Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and traveled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man and became a cherished friend and colleague.
In Mandela's Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which "the grandfather of South Africa" was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why courage is more than the absence of fear, why we should keep our rivals close, why the answer is not always either/or but often "both," how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfaction - our own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable stories - of Mandela's childhood as the protégé of a tribal king, of his early days as a freedom fighter, of the 27-year imprisonment that could not break him, and of his fulfilling remarriage at the age of 80.
This uplifting book captures the spirit of this extraordinary man—warrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and moral leader—and spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy we’ll leave behind.
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Written and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, Nelson Mandela tells the story of a global icon in poignant verse and glorious illustrations.
Young readers will be inspired by Mandela's triumph and his lifelong quest to create a more just world.
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