{"product_id":"9780312611682","title":"Conversations with Myself","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eConversations with Myself\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Nelson Mandela\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him.\" —from the foreword by President Barack Obama \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by President Barack Obama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom letters written in the darkest hours of his twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to \u003ci\u003eLong Walk to Freedom, Conversations with Myself \u003c\/i\u003egives readers access to the private man behind the public figure. Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, \u003ci\u003eConversations with Myself  \u003c\/i\u003eis a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A prisoner became a free man; a liberation figure became a passionate voice for reconciliation; a party leader became a president who advanced democracy….He has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him.” —\u003ci\u003efrom the foreword by President Barack Obama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A literary album…Intensely moving, raw, and unmediated…Provides the fullest picture yet of Nelson Mandela…A necessary book.” —\u003ci\u003ePeter Godwin, The Observer (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are fascinating glimpses of the inner man, and flashes of his celebrated humor….\u003ci\u003eConversations\u003c\/i\u003e presents a Mandela more people may feel they can emulate.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book will reduce the reader to both rapture and tears....Deeply moving.” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A truly unprecedented moment in publishing…Stunning…Nothing short of a monumental historical document.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book will reduce the reader to both rapture and tears.” —\u003ci\u003eAlec Russell, Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Outstanding for what it offers. . . Its collection of letters and meditations, together with its thorough index and appendix, belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the nature of power and resistance.” —\u003ci\u003eJ.M. Ledgard, The New York Times Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312611682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40626046173390,"sku":"9780312611682","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312611682","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}