Books by Richard Stengel

Richard Stengel is an American editor and former government official who served as the 16th managing editor of Time magazine from 2006 to 2013. He was United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2016. He collaborated with Nelson Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and authored Mandela's Way: Lessons for an Uncertain Age. He earlier served as president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

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Mandela's Way

Richard Stengel

Discover the private discipline behind one of history's most admired leaders. This microbook reveals how Nelson Mandela turned fear into calm, image into strategy, and decades of imprisonment into patience—showing the everyday choices, not myths, that shaped his courage, his negotiations, and his quiet acts of letting go.

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