From 1 Nobel winner to another: President Obama writing foreword for Nelson Mandela’s book

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Obama writing foreword for Nelson Mandela’s book

NEW YORK — From one Nobel winner to another: President Barack Obama is writing a foreword to Nelson Mandela’s new book.

Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced Wednesday that Obama will contribute to Mandela’s “Conversations With Myself.” It is a collection of diaries, journals and other personal materials of the former South African president and apartheid foe.

The book comes out Oct. 12.