Secondary/Adult (starred review) "... beautifully reproduced photographs on every double-page spread... huge... handsome biography... for those who know Mandela only as a distant icon and for those familiar with his autobiography... and with... South Africa's struggle for democracy. More than 60 world figures (including Clinton, Annan... ) and antiapartheid activists (including Tutu and Kathrada) pay tribute and remember... Most moving are the accounts by Mandela's fellow prisoners on Robben Island, the photos of them breaking stones... the brutal... confrontations between police and demonstrators. The facsimiles of documents in Mandela's handwriting, with his corrections, include the famous speech at his trial... With all the praise, there are close-up accounts of sorrow and anger, including his breakup with his... wife, Winnie, his guilt about the suffering of his children, his activism on... AIDS. There's laughter, too... No one will read all the tributes, but the famous names and incredible photos will grab browsers, who will go on to read... stirring history by those who were there... " - Booklist, Oct 15/06.

Originally published: Auckland, N.Z. : PQ Blackwell, 2006.