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Book Review of Long Walk to Freedom : The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom : The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
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I found out about this book by watching Judith Keppel's run on Who Want's to be a millionaire? I liked how the book included a map of Southern Africa and I didn't need to use a dictionary to look up the places Nelson Mandela was talking about. I liked learning about contemporary South African history since I never studied it in my history classes. I only heard apartheid and Nelson Mandela mentioned before but never studied them. It was good to study both indepth in the book and finding what happens to Mandela in the end. I loved the ending. It was one of the few political books i've read to have a great ending.