Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. 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 antiapartheid 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. 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 tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle setback renewed hope and ultimate triumph.

TITLE: Long Walk to Freedom

AUTHOR: Nelson Mandela

SKU: 9780316323543

PUBLISHER: Little Brown & Company

DATE PUBLISHED: 08/10/2013

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 638

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 137 mm x 208 mm x 46 mm

WEIGHT: 640 gr