Long Road To Freedom

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759521042

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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Pdf

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Author : Kate Messner
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545639231

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Long Road to Freedom (Ranger in Time #3) by Kate Messner Pdf

Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, is back for the third book in Kate Messner's new chapter book series. This time, he helps two kids navigate the Underground Railroad! Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to a Maryland plantation during the days of American slavery, where he meets a young girl named Sarah. When she learns that the owner has plans to sell her little brother, Jesse, to a plantation in the Deep South, it means they could be separated forever. Sarah takes their future into her own hands and decides there's only one way to run -- north.

Author : Yaʻaḳov Meridor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Eretz Israel
ISBN : UCAL:B4518200

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Long is the Road to Freedom by Yaʻaḳov Meridor Pdf

Author : Condoleezza Rice
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781455540198

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Democracy by Condoleezza Rice Pdf

From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. "This heartfelt and at times very moving book shows why democracy proponents are so committed to their work...Both supporters and skeptics of democracy promotion will come away from this book wiser and better informed." -- The New York Times From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, became the epicenter of the civil rights movement for black Americans. In this book, Rice explains what these epochal events teach us about democracy. At a time when people around the world are wondering whether democracy is in decline, Rice shares insights from her experiences as a policymaker, scholar, and citizen, in order to put democracy's challenges into perspective. When the United States was founded, it was the only attempt at self-government in the world. Today more than half of all countries qualify as democracies, and in the long run that number will continue to grow. Yet nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Using America's long struggle as a template, Rice draws lessons for democracy around the world -- from Russia, Poland, and Ukraine, to Kenya, Colombia, and the Middle East. She finds that no transitions to democracy are the same because every country starts in a different place. Pathways diverge and sometimes circle backward. Time frames for success vary dramatically, and countries often suffer false starts before getting it right. But, Rice argues, that does not mean they should not try. While the ideal conditions for democracy are well known in academia, they never exist in the real world. The question is not how to create perfect circumstances but how to move forward under difficult ones. These same insights apply in overcoming the challenges faced by governments today. The pursuit of democracy is a continuing struggle shared by people around the world, whether they are opposing authoritarian regimes, establishing new democratic institutions, or reforming mature democracies to better live up to their ideals. The work of securing it is never finished. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Author : Mark Thompson
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0312131143

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Long Road to Freedom by Mark Thompson Pdf

News stories, essays, cartoons, interviews, and more than one thousand photographs, all culled from the pages of the leading homosexual publication, chronicle the gay rights movement over the past twenty-five years. Reprint.

Author : Slavomir Rawicz
Publisher : Constable
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849016803

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The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz Pdf

Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags. After a three month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions, realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death. In June 1941 they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom nine months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert. First published in 1956, this is one of the world's greatest true stories of adventure, survival and escape, has been the inspiration for the film The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir and starring Colin Farrell and Ed Harris.

Author : Avner Gold
Publisher : Mesorah Publications, Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015080868501

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The Long Road to Freedom by Avner Gold Pdf

Author : Chris Van Wyk,Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781447258582

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Long Walk to Freedom by Chris Van Wyk,Nelson Mandela Pdf

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela is the amazing story of a true hero of our times; his famous biography has been specially adapted for children in a beautiful illustrated picture book format. Discover how a little boy whose father called him "troublemaker" grew up to fight apartheid, become South Africa's first black president and campaign for freedom and justice throughout the world. Adapted by poet Chris van Wyk and illustrated by South African artist Paddy Bouma, with an introduction from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Long Walk to Freedom introduces children to the life of one of the world's most beloved leaders.

Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541617773

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South to Freedom by Alice L Baumgartner Pdf

A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.

Author : Noel D. Johnson,Mark Koyama
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108425025

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Persecution & Toleration by Noel D. Johnson,Mark Koyama Pdf

In this book, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama tackle the question: how does religious liberty develop?

Author : Nelson Mandela,Mandla Langa
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374717735

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Dare Not Linger by Nelson Mandela,Mandla Langa Pdf

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.

Author : Devon W. Carbado
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807069134

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The Long Walk to Freedom by Devon W. Carbado Pdf

In this groundbreaking compilation of first-person accounts of the runaway slave phenomenon, editors Devon Carbado and Donald Weise have recovered twelve narratives spanning eight decades—more than half of which have been long out of print. Told in the voices of the runaway slaves themselves, these narratives reveal the extraordinary and often innovative ways that these men and women sought freedom and demanded citizenship.

Author : Arthur C. Brooks
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465029419

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The Road to Freedom by Arthur C. Brooks Pdf

Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America’s exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions—by exploding the size of government, propping up their corporate cronies, and trying to reorient our system from rewarding merit to redistributing wealth. In The Road to Freedom, American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks shows that this trend cannot be reversed through materialistic appeals about the economic efficiency of capitalism. Rather, free enterprise requires a moral defense rooted in the ideals of earned success, equality of opportunity, charity, and basic fairness. Brooks builds this defense and demonstrates how it is central to understanding the major policy issues facing America today. The future of the free enterprise system has become a central issue in our national debate, and Brooks offers a practical manual for defending it over the coming years. Both a moral manifesto and a prescription for concrete policy changes, The Road to Freedom will help Americans in all walks of life translate the philosophy of free enterprise into action, to restore both our nation’s greatness and our own well-being in the process.

Author : Johan Fourie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009228497

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Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom by Johan Fourie Pdf

Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom is an entertaining and engaging guide to global economic history told for the first time from an African perspective. In thirty-five short chapters Johan Fourie tells the story of 100,000 years of human history spanning humankind's migration out of Africa to the Covid-19 pandemic. His unique account reveals just how much we can learn by asking unexpected questions such as 'How could a movie embarrass Stalin?', 'Why do the Japanese play rugby?' and 'What do an Indonesian volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu have in common?'. The book sheds new light on urgent debates about the roots and reasons for prosperity, the march of opportunity versus the crushing boot of exploitation, and why it is the builders of society – rather than the burglars –who ultimately win out.

Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political prisoners
ISBN : 0316857874

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The Illustrated Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Pdf

Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most significant moral leader since Gandhi. As president of the African National Congress and spiritual figurehead of the anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving South Africa towards black-majority rule. He is revered throughout the world as a vital force for human rights and racial equality. Mandela's riveting memoirs, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM , were first published in 1994 to universal acclaim. This exciting illustrated edition now portrays his life in words and pictures. Vivid descriptions of his childhood environment, early Johannesburg, life in the townships, Robben Island and the events, protests, historic trials and acts of vengeance that forged his destiny are now accompanied by haunting and dramatic photographs that illuminate his story in an unforgettable way.