Conversations with Myself

Resumen del libro

An unprecedented personal portrait of one of the great leaders of our time, now publishing for the first time in paperback

With a foreword by President Barack Obama


Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life.

Conversations With Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure: from letters written in the darkest hours of Mandela's twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or recording troubled dreams on the desk calendar of his cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggles in the early 1960s, or conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. In these pages he is neither an icon nor a saint; here he is like you and me.

With a foreword from President Barack Obama the first he has written since taking office Conversations With Myself is an intimate journey from the first stirrings of Mandela's political conscience to his galvanizing role on the world stage. It is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.

Biografía del autor

Nelson Mandela (Qunu, Sudáfrica, 1918-Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica 2013), Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1993, es la voz más representativa de África en el mundo. Por su lucha contra el apartheid, pasó 26 años en una cárcel de máxima seguridad. En 1994 fue elegido Presidente de la República de Sudáfrica. En 1999 abandonó la vida política.