Nelson Mandela's memoir, Long Road to Freedom, electrified the world in 1994 with the story of a solitary man who, despite unbelievable hardships, brought down one of the most-despised regimes in the world. Fifteen years after the publication of that classic work comes this fully authorized graphic biography, which relays in picture form the life story of the world's greatest moral and political hero--from his boyhood in a small South African village to his growing political activism with the ANC, his twenty-seven-year incarceration as prisoner 46664 on Robben Island, his dramatic release, and his triumphant years as president of South Africa. With new interviews, firsthand accounts, and archival material that has only recently been uncovered, this visually dramatic biography promises to introduce Mandela's gripping story to a whole new generation of readers.

Author: The Nelson Mandela Foundation
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/18/2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 2.42lbs
Size: 11.56h x 8.76w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780393070828
Audience: Ages 9-12


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/01/2009 pg. 54
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2009
School Library Journal 11/01/2009 pg. 139
Voice of Youth Advocates 12/01/2009 pg. 431 - Recommended - Better Than Most

About the Author
The Nelson Mandela Foundation: - Norton's previous collaboration with The Nelson Mandela Foundation, Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales, won the NAACP Award in 2003. Nelson Mandela, who will be ninety-one on July 18, 2009, lives in Johannesburg.