"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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 10/01/1995
ISBN: 9780316548182
Pages: 638
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.48w x 1.77d

Review Citations: New York Times 10/22/1995 pg. 44
New York Times 12/03/1995 pg. 88
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1995 pg. 88
Ebony 04/01/2004 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly 09/04/1995
Ebony 11/01/2005 pg. 45