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Both books are widely regarded as essential primary-source memoirs, frequently recommended for history study, book clubs and reflective reading, and together this set forms a compelling introduction to two of the defining struggles for equality and human dignity of the modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo authentic, first-person autobiographies from globally celebrated civil rights leaders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback format makes the set affordable, lightweight and easy to gift or carry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRich primary-source material ideal for history study, essays and classroom use\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilds empathy and understanding of civil rights history in the US and South Africa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA meaningful, lasting gift for history lovers, students, educators and thoughtful readers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMartin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) was the foremost leader of the American civil rights movement, a Baptist minister whose nonviolent campaigns for racial equality culminated in the 1963 March on Washington and earned him the Nobel Peace Prize. Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who spent twenty-seven years in prison for his beliefs before becoming his country's first democratically elected president in 1994 and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy You'll Love This Set\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nTwo towering voices of moral courage, told entirely in their own words. 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When a brand-new elevator plunges into freefall on her watch, Lila Mae is plunged into a citywide conspiracy involving corrupt guild politics, racial prejudice, and a rivalry between two schools of inspection philosophy. Sharp, strange, and quietly devastating, it remains one of the most inventive American novels of the last thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nSet in a vividly imagined metropolis where elevator inspection is a matter of civic pride and political power, The Intuitionist introduces a world split between two rival schools: the Empiricists, who inspect elevators by rigorous physical measurement, and the Intuitionists, who \"ride\" a car and sense its faults instinctively. Lila Mae Watson, the department's first Black woman inspector, is a devoted Intuitionist with a spotless record. When a newly inspected elevator in a prestigious building suffers a catastrophic freefall, she becomes the prime suspect in a scandal engineered to discredit her entire discipline during a heated guild election. As Lila Mae digs for the truth, she uncovers secret writings, buried rivalries, and a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of city government. Blending noir detective plotting with speculative invention and sly social allegory, Whitehead uses the humble elevator as a lens onto race, ambition, bureaucracy, and the promise (and failure) of American progress. First published in 1999, the novel announced Whitehead as a major new voice in American fiction. 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