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“I guess that if I have to go to a desert island and take one Mandela book with me I think it would be Anthony Sampson’s one. He has the credibility of knowing Mandela as well as any biographer could be expected to get to know him. But, at the same time, he was able to reflect on Mandela. And the thing about Mandela is that he’s not a man to reflect upon himself.” Read more...
The best books on Nelson Mandela and South Africa
John Carlin, Journalist
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