Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
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Nelson Mandela. (2017). Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Nelson Mandela. 2017. Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Nelson Mandela, Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Nelson Mandela. Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom.
"I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first president of a democratic South Africa. From the outset, he was committed to serving only a single five-year term. During his presidency, he and his government ensured that all of South Africa's citizens became equal before the law, and he laid the foundation for turning a country riven by centuries of colonialism and apartheid into a fully functioning democracy.
Dare Not Linger is the story of Mandela's presidential years, drawing heavily on the memoir he began to write as he prepared to leave office, but was unable to finish. Now the acclaimed South African writer Mandla Langa has completed the task, using Mandela's unfinished draft, detailed notes that Mandela made as events were unfolding, and a wealth of unseen archival material. With a prologue by Mandela's widow, Graça Machel, the result is a vivid and often inspirational account of Mandela's presidency and the creation of a new democracy. It tells the story of a country in transition and the challenges Mandela faced as he strove to make his vision for a liberated South Africa a reality.

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   • source: Bill Clinton
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     "A rare human being who, in freeing himself of his demons, also became free to give his extraordinarily leadership to his country and the world."

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   • content: "Underneath the history that has been made, there is a human being who chose hope over fear--progress over the prisons of the past . . . Even as he became a legend, to know the man--Nelson Mandela--is to respect him even more."
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     December 1, 2017
     A memoir of Mandela's term as president of newly democratic South Africa.Catapulting from prison to executive office soon after attaining freedom, Mandela (1918-2013) pledged two things: he would serve only one five-year term, as opposed to the entrenched presidents who preceded him, and he would ensure that all South African citizens were treated equally under the law. After leaving office, he began writing a memoir of his time in office, but he did not complete it. Working with his drafts, South African novelist Langa (The Lost Colours of the Chameleon, 2008, etc.) delivers a book that is less polished (because it's told in two voices) than it would have been had Mandela finished it himself and that is a touch remote at times: "What Mandela said in the snap debate was in essence a reprise of his earlier speech in the Senate, but it was accompanied by a reminder of the fundamental goals of transition, and stressed that it was imperative that there should be a national effort to achieve those goals." Nonetheless, it is a critically important document as the principal firsthand record of Mandela's tumultuous time in office and the often ingenious measures he took to bring about peace. For instance, he had long steeped himself in the history and language of the Afrikaners, the Dutch-descended white settlers of South Africa who were agents of apartheid but not its authors, since the "Colour Bar was a British colonial invention." Mandela calculated that if the Afrikaners could be persuaded to act as a bloc in support of the new democracy he headed, then "they would form the backbone of its defense." So it was that he was able to head off a free-state movement and include Afrikaners, as well as other Europeans, in government. Though without the poetry of Mandela's memoir Long Walk to Freedom (1994), the book contains many such practical lessons in governance.Essential to students of Mandela's political career as well as of modern African history.

     COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     December 1, 2017
     

     After Long Walk to Freedom, the conclusion of Mandela's (1918-2013) autobiography is entrusted to final editing by South African writer Langa (The Lost Colours of the Chameleon). This follow-up starts with South African president F.W. de Klerk's unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Mandela's subsequent release from Victor Verster Prison in February 1990. In the country's first democratic elections in April 1994, Mandela uprooted the South African racial order when he won the presidency. "I am your servant; I don't come to you as a leader...I regard it as the highest honour to lead the ANC at this moment in our history." This book relates Mandela's single presidential term (1994-99) in chronological fashion and with extensive detail. When he retires, it is with humility, ."..to sit down with my children and grandchildren and to listen to their dreams." At the time of Mandela's death, the manuscript remained unfinished. Although his writings were shaped into this biography, the tone is markedly different from Long Walk to Freedom. Absent is the powerful first-person narrative, replaced instead with predominantly third-person passive text. VERDICT Documenting the life of one of history's most important leaders, profiled during a pivotal moment, this essential purchase is only slightly weakened by the absence of Mandela's own voice and the story he had to tell.--Jessica Bushore, Xenia, OH

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     May 15, 2017
     

     Published in 1994, Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom was an international best seller. This second volume of memoirs, left unfinished at his death, has now been completed by Commonwealth Prize-winning novelist/journalist Langa. Langa drew on the detailed notes Mandela made throughout his presidency, the speeches he gave, and previously unseen archival material.

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here completed and expanded with notes and speeches written by Mandela during his historic presidency, making for a moving sequel to his worldwide bestseller Long Walk to Freedom.
"I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first president of a democratic South Africa. From the outset, he was committed to serving only a single five-year term. During his presidency, he and his government ensured that all of South Africa's citizens became equal before the law, and he laid...

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