Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
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, 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 Mandelaâs Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which âthe 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 âboth,â how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfactionâour own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable storiesâof Mandelaâs childÂhood as the protĂ©gĂ© 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 manâwarrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and moral leaderâand spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy weâll leave behind.
From the Hardcover edition.
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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, 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 Mandelaâs Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which âthe 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 âboth,â how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfactionâour own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable storiesâof Mandelaâs childÂhood as the protĂ©gĂ© 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 manâwarrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and moral leaderâand spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy weâll leave behind.
From the Hardcover edition.











