Long Walk to Freedom - The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Back Bay Books

2014

896 páginas

1d 5h 52m

ISBN-10: 0316034789

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.

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Um dos melhores e mais emocionantes livros que já li,sempre fui uma fã, pelo pouco que o conhecia,através de notícias,então quando li o livro...realmente foi umas das pessoas mais admiráveis,sua luta,contra o apartheid (uma das mais cruéis das segregações)as condições e situações dessa luta,sua prisão,que durou 27 anos, realmente tem que acreditar e olhar para o motivo é o objetivo é não hesitar diante da cruel e violenta reação à sua luta. Esquecer de vc,pessoa, e focar em um bem maior para um povo,igualdade, o respeito ao ser humano independente da cor da pele,raça,enfim.....a liberdade. Liberdade essa que foi lhe tiradas por 27 anos de trabalhos forçá-los em uma prisão.