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Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage

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After spending two years with Nelson Mandela collaborating on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, author and Time managing editor Stengel (You're Too Kind) felt that leaving Mandela's side "was like the sun going out of my life." In 15 compelling chapters, Stengel uses his inside perspective and more than 70 hours of taped interviews to distill wisdom from "the grandfather of South Africa," who recently turned 91, while also recounting stories from Mandela's childhood, his days as a revolutionary, his 27-year imprisonment, and his time negotiating for the country's first democratic elections. Stengel also explores Mandela's romantic relationships, including his three wives (the latest of whom, Graca Machel, he married at age 80). It's the intersection of Mandela's personal life with his part in world history that makes this portrait so vivid and compelling; indeed, the personal role he's played in Stengel's life (it was Mandela who urged Stengel to marry his wife; he became godfather to Stengel's first son) lend the volume's self-help aspects real resonance. Peeling back the many layers of Mandela's life, Stengel provides a clear view of Mandela's legacy and the lessons he has to teach. Copyright Â© Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From the Publisher â€œThere is no man I admire more than Nelson Mandela. Rick StenÂgelâ€™s wise and moving book captures the Nelson Mandela I have been privileged to know. But reading Mandelaâ€™s Way gave me new insights and inspiration. I am confident it will give the same gifts to others. I was inspired anew, and I know others will be too.â€â€”President Bill Clinton â€œThis delightfully inspiring book is a philosophical guide to how we can aspire to achieve Mandelaâ€™s grace and how we can draw upon his greatÂness as a model for the comportment of our lives each day.â€â€”Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University â€œNelson Mandela has lived every word of his teaching, whatever the cost. His abiding lesson is about forgiveness. Mandelaâ€™s Way takes us into the inner life of one of the most of important heroes of the century. There are lessons here that could radically change the way you live your life.â€â€”Deepak Chopra, author of The Ultimate Happiness Prescription â€œMandelaâ€™s Way is a timely and welcome reminder of this great manâ€™s political genius, personal integrity, and peerless instinct for survival and triumph. Every world leader should keep Mandelaâ€™s Way within easy reach.â€â€”Tom Brokaw â€œHere is the wisdom of the worldâ€™s greatest moral leader brilliantly distilled by a wonderful writer. From the time they spent working closely together on Mandelaâ€™s memoirs, Rick Stengel draws fifteen big life lessons plus hundreds of smaller insights, while also giving us an intimate and astonishingly honest look at this inspiring human being.â€â€”Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Einstein â€œMandelaâ€™s Way is an electrically exciting, direct, and vivid way of making greatness tangible, human and complex. Richard Stengel has honed all the elegance and lucidity of thirty years of brilliant cultural and political writing into a book to illuminate, to inspireâ€”and to endure.â€â€”Pico Iyer, author of The Open Road and The Lady and the Monk Library Journal Stengel, managing editor of Time and collaborator on Long Walk to Freedom, is clearly enamored of South African liberator and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela. Stengel distills Mandela's leadership style into 15 lessons, whereby readers learn about Mandela's life and discover how this complex man led from the front, saw the good in others, and had the courage of knowing when to quit. What raises this inspirational book a step above the others is that its 91-year-old subject has walked his talk and can serve as a positive role model. In this day of fleeting pop stars, that says a lot.