Mandela: The Authorized BiographyNelson 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. |
Contents
3Big City19411945 | |
4Afrikaners vs Africans19461949 | |
31Exit Winnie | |
32Negotiating | |
33Election | |
34Governing | |
35The Glorified Perch | |
36Forgiving | |
37Withdrawing | |
38Graça | |
5Nationalists vs Communists19501951 | |
6Defiance1952 | |
7Lawyer and Revolutionary19521954 | |
8The Meaning of Freedom19531956 | |
9Treason and Winnie19561957 | |
10Dazzling Contender19571959 | |
11The Revolution That Wasnt1960 | |
12Violence1961 | |
13Last Fling1962 | |
14Crime and Punishment19631964 | |
PART II19641990 | |
15Master of My Fate19641971 | |
16Steeled and Hardened19711976 | |
17Lady into Amazon19621976 | |
18The Shadowy Presence19641976 | |
19Black Consciousness19761978 | |
20Prison Charisma19761982 | |
21A Family Apart19771980 | |
22Prison Within a Prison19781982 | |
23Insurrection19821985 | |
24Ungovernability19861988 | |
25The Lost Leader19831988 | |
26Something Horribly Wrong19871989 | |
27Prisoner vs President19891990 | |
PART III19901999 | |
28Myth and Man | |
29Revolution to Cooperation | |
30Third Force | |
39Mandelas World | |
40Mandelas Country | |
41Image and Reality | |
Notes | |
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28 Myth and Man | |
29 Revolution to Cooperation | |
30 Third Force | |
31 Exit Winnie | |
32 Negotiating | |
33 Election | |
34 Governing | |
35 The Glorified Perch | |
36 Forgiving | |
37 Withdrawing | |
38 Graça | |
39 Mandelas World | |
40 Mandelas Country | |
41 Image and Reality | |
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