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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (HRW library)
by Nelson Mandela
The best-selling memoirs, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power. Reprint. NYT.
Wee Kim Wee : glimpses and reflections.
by Kim Wee Wee
Singapore's former President Wee Kim Wee (b.1915) has written not so much an autobiography but a collection of reminiscences and vignettes, opening windows onto his much-loved personality and the events of his poverty-stricken childhood and career as a clerk, journalist, diplomat and from 1985-93, as President of Singapore. His humility and sincerity shines through his straightforward tales of his experiences.