04185cam a2200493 i 4500 18109597 BJBSDDR 20240607130631.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 140409s2013 nyuabf 001 0aeng 2013498441 9780316323543 0316323543 DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc f-sa--- 545 DT 1974 M271l 2013 968.06/5092 Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013. 818 Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela / Nelson Mandela. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013 ©1994 x, 638 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes index. "Foreword by President Bill Clinton." "Now a major motion picture." Foreword by President Bill Clinton A country childhood Johannesburg Birth of a freedom fighter The struggle is my life Treason The black pimpernel Rivonia Robben Island : the dark years Robben Island : beginning to hope Talking with the enemy Freedom Index 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 anti-apartheid 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. 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. Herecounts 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. Here, at last, are the riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose accomplishments won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize--and recently the elected leadership of his country. Mandela's story is one of the most powerful and inspiring of the 20th century. Photographs Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013. 818 Presidents South Africa Biography. Presidentes África del Sur Biografías 821 Estadistas Sudáfrica Biografías 27310 South Africa Politics and government 1948-1994. Sudáfrica Política y gobierno Siglo XX 3679 Africa del Sur Política y gobierno 1948-1994 10788 7 cbc orignew 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 118349 118349 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2022-12-08 0 545 DT 1974 M271l 2013 00000164105 2022-12-08 00:00:00 1 2022-12-08 BK