Question

Which book was used as a source for this text passage?

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid in World History
Nelson Mandela
Conversations with Myself
Mandela’s Way: Lessons in Life

Answer 1

I don’t have the passage — can you paste the text you’re asking about? With the passage I can try to identify which book it came from.

If you want to try it yourself, here are reliable ways to check which of those four books is the source:

- Do an exact-phrase web search of a distinctive sentence or short phrase from the passage (put it in quotes). If it’s in one of the books, Google (or Google Books) often returns the book page.
- Search the passage text in Google Books (books.google.com) — it indexes full text of many books and will show the exact book and page.
- If it’s a direct quote, search quotation sites (they often cite the book and page).
- If you have access to a library catalog (WorldCat) or a university library, search within the book records or use their “search in full text” features.
- Consider clues in the passage: first-person reflections and letters → likely Conversations with Myself; leadership lessons and modern management-style aphorisms → probably Mandela’s Way (Richard Stengel); broad historical/contextual treatment → Nelson Mandela and Apartheid in World History; a generic title “Nelson Mandela” could be an encyclopedia entry or one-author biography (need author).

Paste the passage and I’ll run the identification for you and tell you which book is the source (and give page/quote details if available).