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Summary: A gripping read.
Review: Okay I'm only halfway through the book, but this is the best read I've had for a while. Absolutely fascinating, well written and insightful. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of South Africa and or the strength of human spirit. My next book will be one written by someone who supported aparthied. I am very interested to see some arguments in support of the system Nelson fought against.
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Summary: First Autobiography I cound't put down
Review: Nelson Mandela takes you through his lifelong struggles in a way that leaves you always wanting to turn the page. A few color photos are also inserted and give a powerful message. Regardless of your race or color, it is an amazing book that opens the mind to happenings throughout the world.
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Summary: Mandela's view, not the whole story
Review: This book doesn't contain a real description of apartheid, just Nelson Mandela's view of it. He tries to rewrite history as a justification of his violent beleifs and the brutal tactics that he supported before he became president. I have read some of Mandela's work when he was in prison. If he could execute every non-black in South Africa, he would. If you want to learn something about South African history, read a real history book, instead of this one-sided garbage.
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Summary: The Nice Brisk Walk
Review: This book, A long walk to Freedom, was undoubtedly a very well written book. The life of Nelson Mandela appeared in vivid colors and it was simply amazing. I very much enjoyed the stories of Nelson going through schooling, and most of all I enjoyed the very ending of the book because it had the most amazing quotes to ponder. I wrote them down right away. This book is definitely one to recommend because it is real. The details add significance to even the littlest occurrances in Nelson Mandela's life. Simply it was a fantastic story about a strong man fighting for his freedom. He had the will to survive. What more of an inspirational book could someone ask for!
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Summary: The Best Bio Ever!
Review: I can't say enough about this book. It is the type of biography you want to listen to over and over because it is so inspiring. Mandela showed great ability to hold to his vision of a free South Africa even while he was jailed for 27 years. Mandela writes about his whole life: the death of his father at an early age; his days as an intractable youth; his years of growing political awareness and activity; his imprisonment; and eventually his triumphant return as his nation's president. Danny Glover's voice only adds to the richness and largesse of the narration.
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Summary: Very subjective and propagandistic
Review: For anyone who really wants to know the truth about the seperate development (Apartheid) concepts of the previous South African government, this is definately not the book to read. If you want to learn more about the man Mandela from the point of view of the millions so called oppressed people in South Africa, then this is it. It gives a very subjective view of the situation as it was at that time in history, but describes the man Mandela as the world sees and expects to see him - the smiling saviour of the South African Black people. The fact that he wanted to achieve his goals with terrorism and crime and that people still suffer today, after the creation of the so called democratic South Africa, because of his legacy of violence is discussed nowhere in this book.
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Summary: Extreme National Pride!
Review: As a South African to sum it up, I fell emense pride for my country. I write this review on the day before christmas. Where was Mandela for 27 Christmas' ? In Prison. Apartheid torn our country apart but was sewn together by one man, one leader and one fellow South African, Nelson Mandela.
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Summary: This is not a book about a man, but a Manuscript for Life
Review: Please allow yourself a moment to Think before you turn the first page of this manuscript: Think about your name; Think about your family; Think about the warmth of sunlight on your skin; Think about the gift you have to think; Think about things you love and tastes you cherish most; Think about someone you would never wish to live without;and then Think for just a moment, about the cause for which you'd be willing to sacrifice all of the above and so much more for a period of indescribable sufference of spirit-breaking duress. Such strength of mind is perhaps too rare for most of us to even contemplate, however welcome now to the mind that could.This manuscript is one of the most important pieces of literature ever laid to ink - cherish it and use it to make your own world a little wiser.
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Summary: Disguting, yet revealing Mandela's ignorance
Review: This biography is very positive about Mandela, which I found awful as I consider him a monstruous criminal (and it was not without reason that he was put to jail...) for mixing up races and thus fighting against human evolution (racial differenciation), an evolutionary backslash of a few hundreds of thousand years! Actually I was not expecting much better with the present anti-human, Jewish controlled political correctness. The only thing I found really interesting in the book, is that it confirmed my hunch about Mandela. This autobiography not only reveals that Mandela was emotional and superstitious, but also, and this the most important, that Mandela was absolutely scientifically illiterate, ignorant. If on the contrary he had known about books such as those of Richard Dawkins on evolution, and books on human race such as Darwin's Descent of Man or Levin's Why Race Matters, and if he had been intelligent enough, then he may on the contrary have fought for human evolution and benefit, instead of destroying our evolutionary advance. My conclusion after reading this book is that we need to enforce science education at high-school, so that we may no more produce catastrophic, calamitous people like Mandela.
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Summary: incredible book
Review: this man is the most important political figure around today.he is a super human being.how many people would defend what they believed in and give x amount of years for there purpose? there's no one like him around anymore he's the last of the true warriors.1994 i was so happy when he became president.that was one of the happiest times of my life.i felt a spirit and a dream fullfilled. he is the best.
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