Nelson Mandela Book Recommendations (All-Time)
Book 1 - A World of Strangers by Nadine Gordimer
Nelson Mandela: “I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."
Book 2 - Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
Nelson Mandela: “"I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."
Book 3 - The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimer
Nelson Mandela: “I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."
Book 4 - On War by Carl von Clausewitz
Nelson Mandela: “[The author's] central thesis, that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means, dovetailed with my own instincts."
Book 5 - War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Nelson Mandela: “One book that I returned to many times."
Book 6 - Red Star over China by Edgar Snow
Nelson Mandela: “In [this book] I saw that it was Mao’s determination and nontraditional thinking that led him to victory."
Book 7 - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Nelson Mandela: “I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in [this novel] and our own laborers and farmworkers."