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by Nelson Mandela
From the show Nelson Mandela
From the Publisher:
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 is his moving and exhilarating autobiography,
a book 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, which has, until now, been virtually
unknown to most of the world.
To millions of people around the world, Nelson Mandela stands, as no
other living figure does, for the triumph of dignity and hope over
despair and hatred, of self-discipline and love over persecution and
evil. Long Walk to Freedom embodies that spirit in a book
for all time.
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