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Mandela

by Anthony Sampson
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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.
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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  • Release date: January 11, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780307814029
  • Release date: January 11, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780307814029
  • File size: 8475 KB
  • Release date: January 11, 2012
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subjects

Biography & Autobiography History Politics Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:11.2
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:10-11

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.
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Biography & Autobiography History Politics Nonfiction