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

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

A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leaderâ€™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 liberÂated 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 magaÂzine, has distilled countless hours of intimate converÂsation 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,Â 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 Mandelaâ€™s Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which â€œthe grandfather of South Africaâ€ 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 â€œboth,â€ how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfactionâ€”our own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable storiesâ€”of Mandelaâ€™s childÂhood as the protÃ©gÃ© of a tribal king, of his early days as a freedom fighter, of the twenty-seven-year imprisonÂment that could not break him, and of his fulfilling remarriage at the age of eighty.

This uplifting book captures the spirit of this extraordinary manâ€”warrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and moral leaderâ€”and spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy weâ€™ll leave behind.
Country USA
Brand Stengel, Richard
Manufacturer Crown Archetype
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780307460684
ReleaseDate 2010-03-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307460684

Country	USA
Brand	Stengel, Richard
Manufacturer	Crown Archetype
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780307460684
ReleaseDate	2010-03-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307460684

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

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