In an age of cynical politics and mutual distrust, Nelson Mandela's moral courage and generosity of spirit proved the key to effecting a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Martin Meredith's full-scale biography of Mandela, originally published in 1997, vividly captures the arc of a life defined by struggle against the brutality of apartheid and its eventual defeat.
"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 [and] writes vividly but unsentimentally about the tribulations and betrayals that racked Mandela's family."—LATimes
