Long Walk to Freedom

The autobiography of Nelson Mandela is one of the great political memoirs of the 20th century. Born into a royal Xhosa family, Mandela trained as a lawyer in Johannesburg and became increasingly involved in the anti-apartheid movement. In 1964, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. Released in 1990 after 27 years, he worked tirelessly to negotiate a peaceful end to apartheid and was elected South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994. Written with clarity, grace, and humanity, Long Walk to Freedom is an indispensable chronicle of one man’s extraordinary courage — and the power of the human spirit.