Mandela: The Authorized Biography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679781783)

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.

Author: Anthony Sampson
ISBN-10: 0679781781
ISBN-13: 9780679781783
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2000
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.27w x 1.51d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 11.2
Point Value: 51
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 43141 / Mandela: The Authorized Biography


Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 09/01/2000 pg. 27
New York Times 10/15/2000 pg. 36
New York Times 12/03/2000 pg. 109
Booklist 04/01/2002 pg. 1299