{"product_id":"conversations-with-myself-9780312611682","title":"Conversations with Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003e Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him. --from the foreword by President Barack Obama \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForeword by President Barack Obama \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to \u003ci\u003eLong Walk to Freedom, Conversations with Myself \u003c\/i\u003egives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Myself \u003c\/i\u003eis a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312611682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d","brand":"Nelson Mandela","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635928985756,"sku":"9780312611682","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_db980c09-179d-49d8-8d94-e6846f39e838.jpg?v=1603840920","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/conversations-with-myself-9780312611682","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}