Mandela: The Authorized Biography - Hardcover

Sampson, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375400192 ISBN 13: 9780375400193

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

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Book by Sampson Anthony

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A fascinating authorized biography of South African leader Nelson Mandela by a long-time acquaintance draws on personal letters, documents, and interviews with hundreds of people to chronicle his rise from imprisoned victim of apartheid to South Africa's presidential palace. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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Nelson Mandela is one of the most extraordinary epics of the twentieth century. An almost-forgotten prisoner on Robben Island twenty years ago, apparently doomed to a helpless existence as a victim of apartheid, he not only survived but almost single-handedly saved South Africa from potential chaos, to become one of the most widely admired leaders in the world. Mandela's myth is dazzling; in this magnificent biography Anthony Sampson penetrates it to show us the man himself.

Sampson has known Mandela since 1951. He was given Mandela's complete cooperation, including access to twenty-seven years' worth of unpublished correspondence from prison and many other private documents--even the original draft of Mandela's prison autobiography, long thought to be lost. He interviewed virtually every significant living figure associated with Mandela, from childhood schoolmates to Mandela's ex-wife, Winnie, to former president F. W. de Klerk. Mandela himself checked and annotated the manuscript, but S

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375400192
• ISBN 13: 9780375400193
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 672