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A carregar... Mandela's Way Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage (original 2010; edição 2009)por Richard Stengel (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Great book about an iconic figure who accomplished extraordinary things. Not sure about the value of the 15 lessons, however really liked how they gave a greater insight into Mandela for better or worse. I especially enjoyed the comparisons between the young and old Mandela. While I found reading Mandela’s book “Long Walk to Freedom” slow and drawn out, maybe reading it first gave enough background to appreciate this shortened version. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML:A compact, profoundly inspiring book that captures the spirit of Nelson Mandela, distilling the South African leaders wisdom into 15 vital life lessons We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before. Now Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. For nearly three years, including the critical period when Mandela moved South Africa toward the first democratic elections in its history, Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and traveled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man and became a cherished friend and colleague. In Mandelas Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which the grandfather of South Africa was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why courage is more than the absence of fear, why we should keep our rivals close, why the answer is not always either/or but often both, how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfactionour own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable storiesof Mandelas childhood as the protg of a tribal king, of his early days as a freedom fighter, of the twenty-seven-year imprisonment that could not break him, and of his fulfilling remarriage at the age of eighty. This uplifting book captures the spirit of this extraordinary manwarrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and moral leaderand spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy well leave behind. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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These fifteen lessons aren't revolutionary - "Courage is not the absence of fear...", "Lead from the Back", etc. - but to have them applied to specific experiences in one man's life - the life of a man who has endured much and come out the other side with such grace - well, it made me admire Mandela all the more, and certainly, his approach to life is one worthy of following in our day to day opportunities.
Richard Stengel spent many months with Mr. Mandela, and that allows him to give us a look a typical outsider wouldn't have had. The stories he shares aren't just of Mandela's prison stint or his leadership in South Africa, they are also about how he interacts with his own children, with those who live nearby, and what he is thinking in his day to day life. Those are the moments that a typical biographer/armchair philosopher could not have captured.
This is not a biography, but a series of glimpses at a man and his personal philosophy on how to make the world a better place, and live a life that matters. I'll take that over a biography any day.
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