Long Walk to Freedom: With Connections (HRW Library)
The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself inLong Walk to Freedom.A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly  while Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years on Robben Island by South Africa's apartheid regime. Among the book's interesting  revelations is Mandela's ambivalence toward his lifetime of devotion to public works. It cost him two  marriages and kept him distant from a family life he might otherwise have cherished.Long Walk to Freedomalso discloses a strong and generous spirit that refused to be broken under the most trying circumstances--a spirit in  which just about everybody can find something to admire.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.