Full name: Mandela: The Authorised Biography

Author: Anthony Sampson Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Award winners, Non Fiction, History, Politics Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780679781783 0679781781

The author has known Mandela since the 1950s, and has been given complete access to all his personal papers, to Mandela himself, and to his friends and political associates, to write the full story of Mandela's life. In addition to covering his years before, during and after his incarceration, the author assesses Mandela's impact as President on South Africa and the world. He also reveals many features of the apartheid system that have hitherto been hidden, and describes the changing attitudes of big business to the ANC and to Mandela himself. The result is an authoritative biography of one of the greatest men of the 20th century. Similar books: Rabble-Rouser for Peace by John Allen Kissinger by Walter Isaacson On His Own Terms by Richard Norton Smith The Patriarch by David Nasaw Mellon by David Cannadine Carnegie by Peter Krass Seven Men by Eric Metaxas Condi by Antonia Felix William Pitt the Younger by William Hague Joe Biden by Jules Witcover King of the Cats by Wil Haygood Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson Clover Adams by Natalie Dykstra Gladstone by Roy Jenkins Eleanor: The Years Alone by Joseph P. Lash Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin East West Street by Philippe Sands