Anthony Sampson

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Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (born August 3, 1926 in Billingham , Durham , † December 18, 2004 in Wardour , Wiltshire ) was a British journalist and writer .

The son of a chemist grew up in Hampstead and attended Westminster School . From 1944 to 1947 he served in the Royal Navy . He then studied at Christ Church in Oxford . During his studies he met Jim Bailey , the son of the mining magnate Sir Abe Bailey . Jim brought him up on a project for a black magazine in South Africa , and Sampson was to lead it. So he came to Johannesburg in 1951 and worked for Drum , a magazine for everyday stories and culture that accommodated the burgeoning freedom movement against apartheid . In 1956 he returned to London and wrote his first book, which was published in 1956.

In London, he served on the staff of the Observer's editor , David Astor . He immersed himself in British society, interviewing numerous people from politics, business and society. His first major publication, Anatomy of Britain , appeared in 1962 , a deeper look into the British class society of "leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames". Five new versions of this title followed, in 2004 under the title Who runs this place? . Political and financial power, he found, “seem to be more detached from the rest of the population”.

For the Observer he watched the fall of Richard Nixon in Washington, DC He wrote more books - on the oil industry , the cartel of airlines , banks, arms dealers and the Group ITT . Sampson was committed to the liberal Social Democratic Party . Contact with South Africa also continued. He was considered an excellent South Africa expert and friend of Nelson Mandela . He received the Alan Paton Award in 2000 for his biography about Mandela .

He edited numerous other economic and political publications. His books have been translated into twenty languages ​​and some have become bestsellers .

Sampson spent the last years of his life in West London and Wiltshire with his wife, Sally. In the spring of 2004 he demonstrated against the Iraq war . Every Saturday he wrote a column in the Independent . The last one appeared on the day of his death.

Works

  • 1956: Drum: A Venture Into The New Africa
  • 1958: The Treason Cages
  • 1960: Common Sense About Africa
  • 1960: who rules England? Anatomy of a leadership layer
  • 1963: Anatomy De l'Angleterre
  • 1965: Anatomy of Britain Today
  • 1967: Macmillan. A Study in Ambiguity , ISBN 978-1-4482-1006-0 .
  • 1968: The new Europeans. A guide to the workings, institutions and characters of contemporary Western Europe
  • 1969: The new Europeans. Men and powers of a continent
  • 1971: The new anatomy of Britain
  • 1973: World power ITT. The political business of a multinational corporation , Rowohlt Verlag , ISBN 3-498-06104-6 .
  • 1975: The Seven Sisters. The Great Oil Companies and the World They Made , ISBN 0-340-19427-8
  • 1976: Serpico , Viking Press. New York. ISBN 0-670-63498-0 (together with Peter Maas )
  • 1976: The seven sisters. The oil companies and the transformation of the world
  • 1977: The Arms Bazaar in the Nineties: From Krupp to Saddam , ISBN 0-340-56385-0 (new edition 1991)
  • 1977: The arms dealers. From Krupp to Lockheed. The story of a deadly business . German by Margaret Carroux , ISBN 3-498-06118-6
  • 1979: Namibia : built on sand. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979.3, pp. 8-36. Informative experience report with map: "The last mandate in Africa at zero hour: No longer southwest, not yet Namibia". ISSN  0342-8311
  • 1981: North-South: A Program for Survival (The Brandt Report) . (ed) William K. Brandt, ISBN 0-262-52059-1
  • 1982: The Moneylenders. On the power of the banks and the impotence of politics , ISBN 3-763-22883-7
  • 1982: The Changing Anatomy of Britain (When Anaytomy of Britain was first published in 1962 it immediately became established as the unique guide to the workings of British power, and essential reading for anyone who needed to understand who runs Britain. Twenty years later, Anthony Sampson has written a completely new Anatomy, with a deeper perspective.)
  • 1984: The Money Lenders: Bankers and a World of Turmoil , ISBN 0-670-21106-0
  • 1984: Empires of the Sky. The politics, contests and cartes of world airlines , ISBN 0-340-34931-X
  • 1987: White money and black resistance. Apartheid and Big Business , ISBN 3-499-12229-4
  • 1988: The Oxford Book of Ages , ISBN 0-192-82244-6
  • 1990: The Midas Touch: Understanding the Dynamic New Money Societies Around Us , ISBN 0-525-24891-9
  • 1995: Company Man: The Rise and Fall of Corporate Life , ISBN 0-812-92631-5
  • 1996: The managers. Portrait of a Leadership Caste , ISBN 3-455-11151-3
  • 1999: Nelson Mandela. The biography . DVA, Munich, ISBN 3-421-05193-3
  • 2004: Who runs This Place? The Anatomy Of Britain In The 21st Century , ISBN 0-719-56565-0

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