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Long Walk to Freedom
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We need stories that offer us models of commitment, compassion, endurance, and resilience. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography is one such story.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: his lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in
He is revered as a vital force for human rights and racial equality. The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in
He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He recounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid.