9780307460684-0307460681-Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage

Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage

ISBN-13: 9780307460684
ISBN-10: 0307460681
Edition: 1
Author: Richard Stengel
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover 256 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780307460684
ISBN-10: 0307460681
Edition: 1
Author: Richard Stengel
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Format: Hardcover 256 pages

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Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage (ISBN-13: 9780307460684 and ISBN-10: 0307460681), written by authors Richard Stengel, was published by Crown Archetype in 2010. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.58.

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A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leader’s wisdom into 15 vital life lessons

We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before.

Now Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. For nearly three years, including the critical period when Mandela moved South Africa toward the first democratic elections in its history, Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and traveled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man and became a cherished friend and colleague.

In Mandela’s Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which “the grandfather of South Africa” was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why courage is more than the absence of fear, why we should keep our rivals close, why the answer is not always either/or but often “both,” how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfaction—our own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable stories—of Mandela’s childhood as the protégé of a tribal king, of his early days as a freedom fighter, of the twenty-seven-year imprisonment that could not break him, and of his fulfilling remarriage at the age of eighty.

This uplifting book captures the spirit of this extraordinary man—warrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and moral leader—and spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy we’ll leave behind.
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