Long Walk to Freedom

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Summary: Excellent.
Review: I haven't personally read the book yet, but I am a South African staying in the United States at the moment. I have to say I was completely shocked when I had to hunt high and low for the book, to give to somebody as a birthday present. This is the perfect book that can explain to somebody more about my country, and they can learn so much by it. I have it in my intention to read the book within the next few months. Nelson Mandela is a wonderful person, and I admire him for everything he has done. I am also proud to say that he is my president.

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Summary: very moving
Review: I read "long walk to freedom" a few years ago. It stills remains so strong in my mind. Mr.Mandela's struggle for his people is un-precidented in our lifetime. Hail to Mr.Mandela. We should all take a look at his life and learn from it. A must read for everyone!!!!

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Summary: One of the best, if not the best leaders in Africa
Review: It's hard to get figures like Rolihlahla in this universe. Mr. Mndela has proved, or rather exposed his patriotism in this book.

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Summary: If this work doesn't move you- your not a human being.
Review: I read Long Walk to Freedom a few years ago while a college sophmore. Years later it is still resonating through me. Our world has few real secular heros and few real leaders. In his autobiography Nelson Mandela, the man behind the legend, is revealed as both. An Inspiration!

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Summary: Amusing and Sad.
Review: This book gives one a glimpse into the everyday of life of rural Africa, then and now. It poignantly illustrates the dichotomus existence of an African growing up in two, sometimes drastically, different worlds. The making of a world statesman is revealed.

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Summary: 750 pages of breathtakingly principled politics
Review: Americans take so much for granted. At the same time, we so easily overlook the shortcomings in our system. Nelson Mandela's "long walk to freedom" reminds me of the gift we have received as Americans and of the blemishes of inequality we have yet to repair. It is refreshing, too, to read of the experiences of a truly principled political activist and to see the power of goodness at work in a troubled world.

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Summary: A must for all freedom fighters.
Review: Mr. Mandela stands alone. There is no other like this.

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Summary: A mesmerizing view of a man who transcends time & history.
Review: A mezmerizing view of a man who transcends his time and his place in history. He has the perpective of both a novelist, with a rich, vibrant sense of detail, and a great moral philospher. His humor, humility, and love of humanity come across on literally every page. The most striking aspect of the book is Mandela's lack of bitterness toward his jailers and love of South Africa as a whole. He spares no one, including himself. Yet he also gives everyone their just due without settling scores, as is too often the case with political memoirs. I unreservedly recommend this book as I honor the man.

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Summary: This book is well worth of my shelf space.
Review: You should read, at least, a book or two about biographies of such noble people as Nelson Mandela, whose lives have been a blessing to the world. This was a great inspirational book and helped me to realize how simple and small things in life could bring so much joy into one's life. Far too often, I personally take simple pleasures of life for granted. The freedom is not free and the book cites how the freedom is brought at the expense of sacrifices of our fathers. The book is very well written and what impresses me is Nelson Mandela's mastery of English language.

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Summary: Long Walk
Review: Today I finished reading Long Walk to Freedom, the very impressive autobiographical account of the life and work of Nelson Mandela. An autobiography is, understandably, biased. If you write an account of your own life, you are not going to speak ill of yourself. Yet, reading through the book, it struck me that Mandela admitted that he had made mistakes. I found the account of his life imbued with a sense of modesty, humility and dignity that you do not find in many politicians.

Mandela showed himself to be a man of another order when he did not turn the table to oppress the minority whites when he became president but, rather, called everyone to the table.

It is one of the interesting stories of our time: a man who spent 27 1/2 years as a political prisoner of his country because of his fight against apartheid ends up, in his old age, the president of that country. One of his deputy presidents is the previous president who headed the party that had put the system in place.