Mandela : The Authorised Biography - Hardcover

Anthony Sampson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002558297 ISBN 13: 9780002558297

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

Physical description; 678p., [24]p. of plates : ill. ; 24cm. Subjects; Mandela, Nelson 1918-2013. Presidents - South Africa - Biography.

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From the Inside Flap:

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.

About the Author:

In the late 1950s Anthony Sampson spent four years in Johannesburg editing the black magazine Drum, an experience which led to a lifelong fascination with South African politics. He was on the staff of the Observer in the 1960s, and since then has written a series of major bestselling books, all translated into over 15 languages. His Anatomy of Britain was a pioneering classic.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0002558297
• ISBN 13: 9780002558297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 500