Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (August 3, 1926 - December 18, 2004) is an English writer and journalist. The most important and successful book is the Anatomy of Britain , published in 1962 and followed by five "Anatomies", updating the original book with various titles. He is the grandson of John Sampson, among whom he wrote a biography, The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997). He also advised Nelson Mandela about Mandela's famous 1948 defense speech in court that led to his conviction for life.
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Biography
Sampson was born in Billingham, County Durham, and was educated at Westminster School. In 1944 he joined the Royal Navy, and by the time he left, in 1947, he was a sub-lieutenant at the RN Volunteer Reserve. He then studied English at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Careers
In 1951 Sampson traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to become the editor of Drum magazine, which remained there for four years. Upon his return to England, he joined the editorial staff of The Observer, where he worked from 1955 to 1966.
He is the author of a series of books, beginning with Anatomy of Britain (1962), where he explores the workings of the English state and other major social institutions, especially large corporations. He has an interest in the structure of broad political and economic power, but he also sees power as a person. He sometimes offers psychoanalytical interpretations of power players, as in this section of the The Money Lenders :
"[Banker] seems to be particularly conscious of time, always aware that time is money.Always there is a sense of restraint and tension. (Is that part of the relationship that Freud observes between compulsive neatness, anal erotism and interest in money?
Sampson was Nelson Mandela's personal friend before Mandela became politically active. In 1964 Sampson attended the Rivonia Trials to support Mandela and other ANC leaders, and in 1999 he published Mandela's official biography.
Sampson is also a founding member of the now-defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Sampson's personal archive, which was cataloged by the Bodleian Library, was published for the first time in 2012.
Bibliography
Books
- Sampson, Anthony (1956). Drum: a business in new Africa . With photos by Bob Gosani and Jurgen Schadeberg. London: Collins.
- Drum: Making Magazines. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2005. ISBNÃ, 9781868422111.
- The Treason Cage (1958)
- Common Sense About Africa (1960)
- Anatomy of Britain (1962) online free
- British Anatomy Today (1965)
- Macmillan: Study in Ambiguity (1967)
- New Europeans. Guidance for the workings, institutions and character of contemporary Western Europe (1968)
- New British Anatomy (1971) online free
- Sovereign Country of ITT (1973)
- The Seven Sisters (study of the international oil industry) (1974, ISBN 0-553-20449-1)
- Serpico (with Peter Maas) (1976)
- The Arms Bazaar (study of international arms trade) (1977)
- The Money Lenders (study of international banking) (1981)
- British Anatomy Changes (1982)
- Black Gold (the novel about the collapse of apartheid and the business/finance picture in South Africa) (1987)
- Midas touch (study of money, books and TV series) (1989, ISBN 0-340-48793-3 or 0-563-20853-8 (BBC))
- British Essential Anatomy: Democracy in Crisis (1992) online free
- Company Man (study of company life) (1995)
- The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest for a Family Secret (1997)
- Mandela: Official Biography (1999), Alan Paton Award Winner
- Who Runs This Place?: British Anatomy in the 21st Century (2004)
- Anatomist (his autobiography, prepared for publication by the widow and his family) (2008)
Critical review, reviews and biography
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Jones, Eric (Oct 1995). "Up the organization". Books. Quadrant . 39 (10): 79-81. Reviews about Company man .
References
External links
- John Thompson, "Anthony Sampson" (obituary), The Guardian , December 21, 2004.
- Anthony Sampson Resume
- Anthony Sampson's papers catalog, c.1930-2011, held at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University
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