Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, statesman, and philanthropist who served as the first black President of South Africa, leading the country towards democracy and racial equality.
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The Grapes of Wrath
I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in [this novel] and our own laborers and farmworkers. - Nelson Mandela
John Steinbeck
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War And Peace
One book that I returned to many times. - Nelson Mandela
Leo Tolstoy
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On War
[The author's] central thesis, that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means, dovetailed with my own instincts. - Nelson Mandela
Carl von Clausewitz
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A World of Strangers
I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility. - Nelson Mandela
Nadine Gordimer
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Burger's Daughter
I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility. - Nelson Mandela
Nadine Gordimer
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The Late Bourgeois World
I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility. - Nelson Mandela
Nadine Gordimer
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Red Star over China
In [this book] I saw that it was Mao’s determination and nontraditional thinking that led him to victory. - Nelson Mandela
Edgar Snow
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