Mandela - The Authorized Biography (Paperback, Annotated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	September 2000
Authors:	Anthony Sampson
Dimensions:	203 x 137 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	736
Edition:	Annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-78178-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership Books > Biography > General Promotions > Nelson Mandela > Biographies
LSN:	0-679-78178-1
Barcode:	9780679781783

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