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Intimate insights into Mandela's personal struggles.
If you've ever felt moved by the story of Nelson Mandela, "Conversations With Myself" offers a rare glimpse into his life beyond the public eye. You'll delve into the depths of his thoughts and experiences, drawing from his own unseen papers. It's an invitation to understand the man behind the leader and the intimate moments that shaped his journey to end apartheid.
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ISBN: 9780374128951
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Publication: 2010-10-11
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics:
Biography,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography Memoir,
History,
Politics,
Biography,
Politics,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.89
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Nelson Mandela is widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has bestowed his entire extant personal papers, which offer an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. A singular international publishing event, Conversations With Myself draws on Mandela's personal archive of never-before-seen materials to offer unique access to the private world of an incomparable world leader. Journals kept on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and draft letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons during his twenty-seven years of incarceration; notebooks from the post-apartheid transition; private recorded conversations; speeches and correspondence written during his presidency--a historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation is brought together into a sweeping narrative of great immediacy and stunning power. An intimate journey from Mandela's first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations With Myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice. While other books have recounted Mandela's life from the vantage of the present, Conversations With Myself allows, for the first time, unhindered insight into the human side of the icon.
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Intimate insights into Mandela's personal struggles.
If you've ever felt moved by the story of Nelson Mandela, "Conversations With Myself" offers a rare glimpse into his life beyond the public eye. You'll delve into the depths of his thoughts and experiences, drawing from his own unseen papers. It's an invitation to understand the man behind the leader and the intimate moments that shaped his journey to end apartheid.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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