MANDELA A Biography MARTIN MEREDITH

"Meredith carefully avoids adulation while tracing the course of Mandela's remarkable career . . . [He] skillfully depicts Mandela's complex relationships with the close circle of white Communists who supported the African National Congress for more than four decades [and] writes vividly but unsentimentally about the tribulations and betrayals that racked Mandela's family."
—The Los Angeles Times

"[R]evealing insights, particularly into the contrast between the disciplined Mandela who emerged from prison and the impetuous figure of the late 1940s and early 1950s."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Using personal interviews and the writing of some of Mandela's closest friends and family, Meredith paints an insider's canvas of recent South African history as well as an epic tale of a freedom fighter."
—San Francisco Chronicle

"Meredith's excellent analysis of Mandela's life within the context of 20th-century South African history results in a skillfully drawn portrait of an intense thinker and a tough-minded political activist.... An invaluable resource."
—Library Journal

"Not only a moving record of a man whose courage and conviction was so splendidly vindicated by events, but an exemplary work of biography."
—Kirkus Reviews