03015cam a2200409 i 4500 431355554 TxAuBib 20200804120000.0 180618s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781631491177 1631491172 (OCoLC)1041572426 TxAuBib rda Mandela, Nelson. Correspondence Selections. The prison letters of Nelson Mandela / edited by Sahm Venter ; foreword by Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela. First edition. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] xv, 620 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Pretoria Local Prison, November 1962-May 1963 -- Robben Island Maximum Security Prison, May 1963-June 1963 -- Robben Island Maximum Security Prison, June 1964-March 1982 -- Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, March 1982-August 1988 -- Tygerberg Hospital & Constantiaberg MediClinic, August-December 1988 -- Victor Verster Prison, December 1988-February 1990. "An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth. Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, the future leader of South Africa wrote a multitude of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and, most memorably, to his courageous wife, Winnie, and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, many of which have never been published, provide exceptional insight into how Mandela maintained his inner spirits while living in almost complete isolation, and how he engaged with an outside world that became increasingly outraged by his plight. Organized chronologically and divided by the four venues in which he was held as a sentenced prisoner, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela begins in Pretoria Local Prison, where Mandela was held following his 1962 trial..."-- Publisher's website. 20200804. Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 Correspondence. Political prisoners South Africa Correspondence. Presidents South Africa Correspondence. Nonfiction. Autobiographies. Records and correspondence. Personal correspondence. Venter, Sahm,. Dlamini-Mandela, Zamaswazi, 1979- TXMAR