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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.
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 Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the 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. Finally he provides the ultimate inside account of the unforgettable events since his release that produced at last a free, multiracial democracy in South Africa.
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.
John Betjeman: A First Class CollectionWritten By : Sir John BetjemanNarrated By : VariousPublished By : BBC Audiobooks LtdRuntime : 2 hours 30 minutesCategories : Autobiography
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Three Weeks With My BrotherWritten By : Nicholas Sparks and Micah SparksNarrated By : Henry LevyaPublished By : Hachette AudioRuntime : 9 hours 30 minutesCategories : Travel
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How to Build a Tin CanoeWritten By : Robb WhiteNarrated By : Robb WhitePublished By : Blackstone Audio IncRuntime : 6 hoursCategories : Autobiography
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DC ConfidentialWritten By : Christopher MeyerNarrated By : Christopher MeyerPublished By : Orion Publishing GroupRuntime : 6 hours 15 minutesCategories : True Crime
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BlindsidedWritten By : Richard M CohenNarrated By : Richard FerronePublished By : Harper Collins USRuntime : 5 hours 30 minutesCategories : AutobiographyPrice : $29.95 $16.95
Illness came calling when Richard M. Cohen was twenty-five years old. A young television news producer with expectations of a limitless future, his foreboding that his health was not quite right... More info...
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