Highlights

• The most intimate and comprehensive portrait of Nelson Mandela’s life ever produced.
• Personally authorized by Mandela.

• Created by a team of award-winning writers, photographers, and researchers, in collaboration with Mandela’s closest living comrades from Robben Island: Mac Maharaj and Ahmed Kathrada.
• Foreword by former President Bill Clinton.
• Introduction by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
• Sixty original and extensive interviews with international figures including Muhammad Ali, Kofi Annan, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bono, and many others.
• Full narrative biography of Mandela’s life.
• Featuring the most complete collection of images ever assembled on Mandela’s life—more than 250 images, and material derived from private collections as well as the Nelson Mandela Foundation archive.
• Includes documents and intimate letters from Mandela to his friends and family.
• Many images are published for the first time in Mandela: The Authorized Portrait .