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\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nby Nelson Mandela, 2008, Kindle Version, Little, Brown and Company \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I read most of this book while on a trip to South Africa. It provided me with an understanding of what the country had gone through under apartheid and helped me appreciate what I was seeing so much more than if I hadn’t read it, especially the attempt of South Africa to be a multi-racial country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mandela’s writing is brutally honest. He acknowledges his missteps and failures, is honest in his assessments of other individuals and accepts satisfaction for his accomplishments. I also found that he had a real appreciation of his role and place in history without any self-promotion on his part. He shows no bitterness regarding his 27-year imprisonment and treatment. I found him to be an amazing individual, almost in the same category as Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only downside of this book is that I have no knowledge of the many individuals who are named in the book and had only a slight knowledge of the events that took place in South Africa during and before his time. Mandela provides a great introduction to these individuals and events up until his inauguration as president, but I am still not very knowledgeable regarding South Africa’s current affairs. I know that he has written another book about his presidential years which would be a natural sequel to Long Walk to Freedom<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book is 627 pages long and requires a bit of fortitude to read it all, but it is extremely well-written and organized. I am so glad I read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Nelson Mandela, 2008, Kindle Version, Little, Brown and Company \u00c2\u00a0 I read most of this book while on a trip to South Africa. It provided me with an understanding of what the country had gone through under apartheid and …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[34,20,16,38],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-autobiography","tag-history","tag-non-fiction","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}