Mandela the authorized biography

  • 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.
  • Mandela: The Authorised Biography is a study of Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, by the British journalist Anthony Sampson.
  • The book provides many new insights into Mandela's story and sheds new light at every turn on the moral dilemmas and personal choices of both.

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    Mandela: The Authorised Biography

    March 12,
    I have long been fascinated with the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela, but my interested was piqued after the Nobel Peace Prize-winner’s death in at 95 years of age. inom selected this “authorized” biography on the basis of a friend’s recommendation, although the work was published in prior to Mandela’s death (and therefore unfortunately did not include that portion of his life). Biographer Anthony Sampson had the advantage of knowing Mandela since , and had unlimited access to information, papper, and correspondence unavailable to many other historians at that time. One of my concerns, however, was whether Sampson could provide an objective analysis of Mandela, the ANC (African National Congress), and those who surrounded and influenced the future South African president (especially his controversial second wife, Winnie). Objectivity remained the major reason why I could not give the biography a full five star rating. Given those concerns,
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    Mandela: The Authorised Biography

    Not to be confused with Nelson Mandela: A Biography or Long Walk to Freedom.

    Mandela: The Authorised Biography is a study of Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, by the British journalist Anthony Sampson.

    Sampson's book was published in , five years after Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. The book was one of the first to examine such issues as Winnie Mandela's crimes, and State PresidentFrederik Willem de Klerk's suspected attempts to use the security forces to derail peace talks.

    De Klerk and the Third Force

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    Sampson said that de Klerk had exacerbated the violence in several ways. De Klerk was reportedly ignoring the violence of the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) when directed against ANC (and vice versa), in the hope of splitting anti-apartheid forces. De Klerk also permitted Inkatha supporters to carry "traditional weapons" in their rallies, with which they caused much injury. Samp

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    Mandela: The Authorised Biography

    The author has known Mandela since the s, and has been given complete access to all his anställda papers, to Mandela himself, 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.