Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela • 1994
Devastation Rating
memoir apartheid South Africa politics
Our Take
Twenty-seven years of imprisonment, and Mandela writes about them with the equanimity of someone who understood that bitterness was a luxury he could not afford. The autobiography is also a document of a country's destruction and reconstruction. The final chapters, as power transfers, are the most cautiously hopeful pages in political memoir.
Appears In
► Civil Rights — The Movement and Its Cost ► Apartheid Testimony — The Record That Cannot Be Revised ► Cold War — The Long Catastrophe of Competing Certainties ► Anti-Colonial Non-Fiction — The Case Against Empire ► Apartheid — The Architecture of Dehumanization ► North Korea — Life Inside the Most Closed Country on Earth
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