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Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
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Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage Hardback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Richard Stengel; Foreword by Nelson Mandela; Preface by Nelson Mandela

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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 protege 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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  • Title Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
  • Author Richard Stengel; Foreword by Nelson Mandela; Preface by Nelson Mandela
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Archetype, New York
  • Publication date 2010-03-30
  • ISBN 9780307460684 / 0307460681
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Inspirational
  • Library of Congress subjects Conduct of life, Courage
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009022358
  • Dewey Decimal Code 650.1

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“There is no man I admire more than Nelson Mandela. Rick Sten­gel’s wise and moving book captures the Nelson Mandela I have been privileged to know. But reading Mandela’s Way gave me new insights and inspiration. I am confident it will give the same gifts to others. I was inspired anew, and I know others will be too.”—President Bill Clinton
 
“This delightfully inspiring book is a philosophical guide to how we can aspire to achieve Mandela’s grace and how we can draw upon his great­ness as a model for the comportment of our lives each day.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
 
“Nelson Mandela has lived every word of his teaching, whatever the cost. His abiding lesson is about forgiveness. Mandela’s Way takes us into the inner life of one of the most of important heroes of the century. There are lessons here that could radically change the way you live your life.”—Deepak Chopra, author of The Ultimate Happiness Prescription
 
Mandela’s Way is a timely and welcome reminder of this great man’s political genius, personal integrity, and peerless instinct for survival and triumph. Every world leader should keep Mandela’s Way within easy reach.”—Tom Brokaw
 
“Here is the wisdom of the world’s greatest moral leader brilliantly distilled by a wonderful writer. From the time they spent working closely together on Mandela’s memoirs, Rick Stengel draws fifteen big life lessons plus hundreds of smaller insights, while also giving us an intimate and astonishingly honest look at this inspiring human being.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Einstein
 
Mandela’s Way is an electrically exciting, direct, and vivid way of making greatness tangible, human and complex. Richard Stengel has honed all the elegance and lucidity of thirty years of brilliant cultural and political writing into a book to illuminate, to inspire—and to endure.”—Pico Iyer, author of The Open Road and The Lady and the Monk
 
 

About the author

Richard Stengel is the former editor of TIME. He collaborated with Nelson Mandela on his bestselling 1993 autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom, "and later served as coproducer of the 1996 Oscar-nominated documentary "Mandela." He is also the author of "January Sun: One Day, Three Lives, a South African Town." Stengel is married to Mary Pfaff, and they have two sons.

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