Books Recommended by Nelson Mandela
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Source: "I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in [this novel] and our own laborers and farmworkers." - Nelson Mandela
Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
Source: "I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility." - Nelson Mandela
1 recommender
The Late Bourgeois World
Nadine Gordimer
Source: "I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility." - Nelson Mandela
1 recommender
A World of Strangers
Nadine Gordimer
Source: "I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility." - Nelson Mandela
1 recommender
On War
Carl von Clausewitz
Source: "[The author's] central thesis, that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means, dovetailed with my own instincts." - Nelson Mandela
4 recommenders
Red Star over China
The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
Edgar Snow
Source: "In [this book] I saw that it was Mao’s determination and nontraditional thinking that led him to victory." - Nelson Mandela
1 recommender
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