![]() Mandela ends the book: "I have walked that long road to freedom. Mandela emerges as a remarkable individual as the book charts his regal upbringing, career as a young lawyer, troubled marriages, long imprisonment, relationship with his fellow inmates and jailers, release, leading negotiations against the apartheid state, transforming the ANC into a modern political party, and finally his election in 1994 as South Africa's first black, democratically elected president. First published in 1995 by the American publisher Little, Brown and ghost-written by Richard Stengel (later a chief editor at Time ) and overseen by an "editorial board" of ANC leaders, this book was written with a global, mainly U.S., readership in mind. ![]() ![]() Billed as "the autobiography" of Mandela, it is probably the most accessible book on his life. ![]()
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