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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Paperback – Unabridged, October 1, 1995
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"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama
Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his 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. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was 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 still revered everywhere 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 finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
- Print length656 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBack Bay Books
- Publication dateOctober 1, 1995
- Dimensions5.45 x 2.05 x 8.1 inches
- ISBN-100316548189
- ISBN-13978-0316548182
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- Publisher : Back Bay Books (October 1, 1995)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 656 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316548189
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316548182
- Item Weight : 1.37 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.45 x 2.05 x 8.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa, on 18 July 1918. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party’s apartheid policies after 1948 before being arrested in August 1962. In November 1962 he was sentenced to five years in prison and started serving his sentence at Robben Island Prison in 1963 before being returned to Pretoria, where he was to later stand in the Rivonia Trial. From 1964 to 1982, he was again incarcerated at Robben Island Prison and then later moved to Pollsmoor Prison, during which his reputation as a potent symbol of resistance to the anti-apartheid movement grew steadily.
Released from prison in 1990, Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994. He is the author of the international bestsellers Long Walk to Freedom and Conversations with Myself.
© Nelson R. Mandela and the Nelson Mandela Foundation / PQ Blackwell Ltd
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The only book that touched me in the way this one did was Kite Runner. Long Walk to Freedom encapsulates Mandela's childhood, struggles as a freedom fighter, political activist, long imprisonment and ends with his election as the president of South Africa. What struck me about this autobiography is that it wasn't boring and was actually informative. About the only thing I knew about Nelson Mandela before I read this book was that he was a political activist from South Africa that was imprisoned for a very long time. I had no idea what he went through to change South Africa into what it is today. I had no idea just how much patience and just how often Mandela was tried with seemingly no light at the end of the tunnel.
I don't know that there is much to review from the book itself that hasn't already been discussed. Some have mentioned a lack of Mandela's childhood, but I didn't really think it was that necessary to put much about his childhood into the book. What really matters was the decision to become active against the apartheid of South Africa in his teenage years.
I love books like this. For me, they help me to become less ignorant of the world and what is going on in it. I'll openly admit I do have some prejudice against members of certain races sometimes for either a) myths that popular culture has created or b) just my own damn stubbornness. I had had an inkling that the history of South Africa wasn't all roses but I had never known the extend until I read this book. As a person, Nelson Mandela is absolutely one of the greatest human beings I've had the pleasure of reading about. For those of us that suffer from depression and anxiety as I do, stories like Mandela's seemingly boundless determination and willingless to rise up again and again in the face of adversity is absolutely remarkable and incredibly inspirational. How Mandela can say that prison never broke his spirit even after 27 years is just unbelievable. Granted, Mandela didn't have much of a choice all of those years but to make the best of it and to keep his spirits up. It definitely puts things in perspective for me when I complain sometimes about being bored at various events or when I negatively think about an event I'm going to before I even give it a chance to see if I like it. In a sense, Mandela's book gives you hope that we can make a difference and one person does indeed matter in the grand scheme of things.
The only mild gripe I had was within the first few pages where Mandela is describing all the tribes with names and it almost seems like made-up code names, but then again for us Westerners anything with a few more consonants in it sounds funny at times I suppose. Overall, Mandela's autobiography is a very smooth and enjoyable read. It's just fascinating learning about a man that's been an inspiration for so many and lost so much along the way to becoming who he is today.
-Travis Stein.
His early years of life when he transcended from a runaway village boy into a determined, visionary leader is phenomenal.
As a reader one can actually visualize the those 27 years of imprisonment, the portraying of anti-apartheid movement, drawing of each character and its supportive role in prison, the emotions and feelings are so evident that I almost have had tears in my eyes when he mentions his walk through the gate and he decided to free himself from the imprisonment of the hatred for those who literally made his life a living hell.
While going through his book, I loved that part "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. I felt myself more times than I can remember, but I hid it behind a mask of boldness. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear". These words left me speechless and impacted my own thinking process in the most powerful and positive way.
It is not easy to choose your country over your family. Surely, Nelson Mandela lost much more than anyone has for the freedom of its people. The book beautifully captures the ideology behind the freedom movement in South Africa, while it also mentions in bits the contemporaries like Gandhi or Nehru.
The best take away from the book was the believe that one can be robbed with everything except ones heart and mind!
I highly recommend this book for young readers who can train and treat themselves with words of wisdom, fearless leadership demonstration, intellectual growth, and insight into the historical anti-apartheid revolutionary movement in South Africa.
The story of Nelson Mandela will always be the most cherished book for me. Thank you Nelson Mandela for your story, R.I.P.
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Overall the book was interesting and an easy read.
While the book is lengthy and comprehensive, covering numerous events in South African history, Mandela's writing style remains deeply personal and engrossing. He skillfully transitions between historical accounts and personal reflections, maintaining the reader's motivation throughout.