Product Description : Mandela: The Authorized Biography Nelson Mandela who emerged from twentysix years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and into democracy is perhaps the worlds most admired leader a man whose life has been led with exemplary courage and inspired convictionNow Anthony Sampson who has known Mandela since 1951 and has been a close observer of South Africas 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 Mandelas private papers including his prison memoir long thought to have been lost meticulous research and hundreds of interviewsfrom 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 Mandelas storySampson has composed an enlightening and necessary story of the man behind the myth(IT'S AN USED PRODUCT)