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Richard Stengel on Mandela: The Lost Tapes

We the People

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Mandela's Complexity and Nuance

I spent so much time looking for complexity and nuance in Mandela. I asked so many questions trying to find hidden depths. Prison was like the refining process of a metal. It just made him pure. He has a kind of radical simplicity about him. A simplicity refined even more by all those years in prison. His thinking is complex but his character is not.

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