Mandela: The Authorised Portrait

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On 11th February 1990, a dignified elderly man walked & in hand with the wife from whom he had been forced to live apart from for twenty-seven years out of prison & into history. It is a date & an image the world will never forget: the day Nelson Mandela was freed. From that day on, Nelson Mandela's immense courage & personal moral authority moved out of the shadows of his prison cell to stand as a beacon of hope first to a bitterly divided nation & then to the whole world. Other images have followed: a smiling Mandela casting his voice in his country's first general election, a solemn Mandela at his inauguration as the first president of a democratic South Africa, Mandela with world leaders, with celebrities, with his wife Graca Machel & his family, in the midst of the crowds of children who are drawn to him wherever he goes. Nelson Mandela occupies a unique place in our world & in Mandela: The Authorised Portrait the narrative of his epic journey to freedom is accompanied by the most complete collection of images ever assembled & by more than sixty specially commissioned interviews. World leaders, friends & associates ranging from President Bill Clinton to Tony Blair, from Bono to President Thabo Mbeki, from his comrades in the South African struggle against apartheid to Muhammad Ali have all contributed their individual stories to build a compelling picture of this inspirational man through the eyes of those closets to him.