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.
In classically elegant and engrossing prose, renowned South African leader Nelson Mendela tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in a firm in Johannesburg, his slow political awakening, and his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s, according to a review on goodreads.com.
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.
