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Nelson Mandela Book Recommendations
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, statesman and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa.
(Read more on Wikipedia)7 Books Recommended
War And Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
"One book that I returned to many times." - Nelson Mandela (Source)
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
"I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in [this novel] and our own laborers and farmworkers." - Nelson Mandela (Source)
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Red Star over China
The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism
by Edgar Snow
"In [this book] I saw that it was Mao’s determination and nontraditional thinking that led him to victory." - Nelson Mandela (Source)
On War
by Carl von Clausewitz
"[The author's] central thesis, that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means, dovetailed with my own instincts." - Nelson Mandela (Source)
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A World of Strangers
by Nadine Gordimer
"I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility." - Nelson Mandela (Source)
The Late Bourgeois World
by Nadine Gordimer
"I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility." - Nelson Mandela (Source)
Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
"I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility." - Nelson Mandela (Source)
