Mandela The Authorized Biography

Name: Mandela The Authorized Biography
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ISBN: 9780679781783

ISBN-10: 0679781781

ISBN-13: 9780679781783

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Authors: 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,…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/12/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.96" long x 1.63" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Map: Apartheid South Africa


Introduction


Prologue: The Last Hero



1918-1964



Country Boy: 1918-1934



Mission Boy: 1934-1940



Big City: 1941-1945



Afrikaners vs. Africans: 1946-1949



Nationalists vs. Communists: 1950-1951



Defiance: 1952



Lawyer and Revolutionary: 1952-1954



The Meaning of Freedom: 1953-1956



Treason and Winnie: 1956-1957



Dazzling Contender: 1957-1959



The Revolution That Wasn't: 1960



Violence: 1961



Last Fling: 1962



Crime and Punishment: 1963-1964



1964-1990



Master of My Fate: 1964-1971



Steeled and Hardened: 1971-1976



Lady into Amazon: 1962-1976



The Shadowy Presence: 1964-1976



Black Consciousness: 1976-1978



Prison Charisma: 1976-1982



A Family Apart: 1977-1980



Prison Within a Prison: 1978-1982



Insurrection: 1982-1985



Ungovernability: 1986-1988



The Lost Leader: 1983-1988



"Something Horribly Wrong": 1987-1989



Prisoner vs. President: 1989-1990



1990-1999



Myth and Man



Revolution to Cooperation



Third Force



Exit Winnie



Negotiating



Election



Governing



The Glorified Perch



Forgiving



Withdrawing



Graca



Mandela's World



Mandela's Country



Image and Reality


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index