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Mandela: The Authorized Biography
9780307814029, 0679781781, 9780679781783

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Anthony Sampson

Table of contents :
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
List of Illustrations
Map: Apartheid South Africa
Introduction
Prologue: The Last Hero

PART I: 1918–1964
  1   Country Boy: 1918–1934
  2   Mission Boy: 1934–1940
  3   Big City: 1941–1945
  4   Afrikaners vs. Africans: 1946–1949
  5   Nationalists vs. Communists: 1950–1951
  6   Defiance: 1952
  7   Lawyer and Revolutionary: 1952–1954
  8   The Meaning of Freedom: 1953–1956
  9   Treason and Winnie: 1956–1957
10   Dazzling Contender: 1957–1959
11   The Revolution That Wasn’t: 1960
12   Violence: 1961
13   Last Fling: 1962
14   Crime and Punishment: 1963–1964

PART II: 1964–1990
15   Master of My Fate: 1964–1971
16   Steeled and Hardened: 1971–1976
17   Lady into Amazon: 1962–1976
18   The Shadowy Presence: 1964–1976
19   Black Consciousness: 1976–1978
20   Prison Charisma: 1976–1982
21   A Family Apart: 1977–1980
22   Prison Within a Prison: 1978–1982
23   Insurrection: 1982–1985
24   Ungovernability: 1986–1988
25   The Lost Leader: 1983–1988
26   “Something Horribly Wrong”: 1987–1989
27   Prisoner vs. President: 1989–1990

PART III: 1990–1999
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   Mandela’s World
40   Mandela’s Country
41   Image and Reality

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