Mandela (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Anthony Sampson
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History and biography
- Time of Work: 1918-1999
- Setting: South Africa
- Principal Characters: Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, Graca Machel, F. W. de Klerk, Ahmed Kathrada, Thabo Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Prisoners, Revolutionaries, Blacks, Islands, Divorce, Lawyers, Nobel Prizes, South Africa or South Africans, Presidents, Massacres, Apartheid
- Locales: South Africa
Anthony Sampson, one of Great Britain’s most eminent and respected journalists, is the author of many books, including the influential Anatomy of Britain (1962) and its succeeding volumes. In the 1950’s, he resided in South Africa, where he was the editor of the black publication Drum; he first became acquainted with Nelson Mandela in 1951. Sampson’s long relationship with Mandela made him the obvious choice to write this authorized biography, and the result is a brilliant study of the life of one of the twentieth century’s major figures as well as a valuable...
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