Nelson mandela biography project class 10

Beyond celebrity hype, this authoritative, highly readable biography analyzes the public and private history of the great South African president. Admiring but also critical, this is, in many ways, a more intimate account than Mandela's fine autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom (1994).

British journalist Meredith humanizes the politician and the family man, revealing his failures, his sorrow about his family, the loneliness as well as the courage and comradeship of the struggle. Meredith brings the history right up to date and also provides more detail about the events and the people that affected Mandela throughout his life, including his years of underground resistance in the African National Congress; his life sentence with hard labor in the lime quarry on Robben Island; and then, the long, secret talks that led to his release after 27 years and the free elections for a nonracial democracy.

Meredith is critical not only of the "forlorn and futile" 1960s sabotage campaign that sent