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Richard Stengel on Mandela: The Lost Tapes

We the People

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Mandela's Legacy

Rick Steves: Mandela was opaque in some ways. He'd spent all these years in prison trying to protect what was personal and intimate about him from the authorities where he had no privacy. The only thing that he had was self-control and self-discipline so he didn't reveal things easily, says Steves. "I think other than that he had the kind of normal desires for happiness and pleasures," writes Steves.

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