Mandela: The Authorized Biography: by Anthony Sampson
Price: N3700
Product Code: 1270732131
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Number of Pages: 736
Weight: 1.6 ibs
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Edition: 2000
ISBN: 0679781781
ISSN: 9780679781783
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Summary: Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy, is perhaps the world's most admired leader, a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired conviction.
Now Anthony Sampson, who has known Mandela since 1951 and has been a close observer of South Africa's political life for the last fifty years, has produced the first authorized biography, the most informed and comprehensive portrait to date of a man whose dazzling image has been difficult to penetrate. With unprecedented access to Mandela's private papers (including his prison memoir, long thought to have been lost), meticulous research, and hundreds of interviews--from Mandela himself to prison warders on Robben Island, from Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo to Winnie Mandela and F. W. de Klerk, and many others intimately connected to Mandela's story--Sampson has composed an enlightening and necessary story of the man behind the myth.
Anthony Sampson has contributed to Mandela: The Authorized Biography as an author. About the Editors:
Anthony Sampson is a journalist and author of The Changing Anatomy of Britain.
Sally Sampson is a magistrate in Britain's juvenile courts.