"[R]evealing insights, particularly into the contrast between the disciplined Mandela who emerged from prison and the impetuous figure of the late 1940's and early 1950's." --The New York Times Book Review
"It provides new perspective and insights into the man and his times....[Meredith] is particularly good in recounting the parallel rise and inevitable clash of white Afrikaner and black African nationalism in this century..." --The Washington Post
"In his spry account, Meredith carefully avoids adulation while tracing the course of Mandela's remarkable career...[He] skillfully depicts Mandela's complex relationships [and] writes vividly but unsentimentally..." --L.A. Times
"Using personal interviews and the writing of some of Mandela's closest friends and family, Meredith paints an insider's canvas of recent South African history as well as an epic tale of a freedom fighter." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Not only a moving record of a man whose courage and conviction was so splendidly vindicated by events, but an exemplary work of biography: instructive, illuminating, as well as felicitously written." --Kirkus Reviews
