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Conversations with myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. An intimate journey from mandelas first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, conversations with myself illuminates a heroic life forged on the front lines of the struggle for freedom and justice. In nelson mandelas conversations with myself i was surprised by the way it was written. Conversations with myself by nelson mandela, paperback. Conversations with myself isnt so much a book as a literary album, containing snippets of mandelas life, shards from diaries, calendars, letters. It a continuation of his former book long walk to freedom references. Conversations with myself by nelson mandela goodreads. Conversations with myself is a very personal book a book of private thoughts and lessons learned.
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