Nelson Mandela's Book Recommendations

"Clausewitz’s central thesis, that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means, dovetailed with my own instincts."

"[The author's] central thesis, that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means, dovetailed with my own instincts."

"I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."

"I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."

"One book that I returned to many times was Tolstoy’s great work, War and Peace."

"One book that I returned to many times."

"I read many American novels, and recall especially John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, in which I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in that novel and our own laborers and farm-workers."

"I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in [this novel] and our own laborers and farmworkers."

"In Edgar Snow’s brilliant Red Star Over China I saw that it was Mao’s determination and nontraditional thinking that led him to victory."

"I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."

"I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."

"I read all the unbanned novels of [this author] and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."

"I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility."