Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

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The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

Nelson Mandela is without doubt 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 on the planet. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa’s antiapartheid movement, he used to be instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered all over as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the best memoirs of history’s greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the atypical story of his life–an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long Walk to Freedom. A great deal of this autobiography used to be written secretly at the same time as Mandela used to be imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa’s apartheid regime. Some of 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 differently 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.

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