Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson (August 3, 1926–December 18, 2004) was a British writer and founding member of the SDP. During the 1950s he edited the magazine Drum in Johannesburg, South Africa. On returning to the United Kingdom he began a series of major books with Anatomy of Britain (1963). His main themes were how Britain works, as a state, and large corporations. August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Social Democratic Party that existed from 1981 until 1988. ... // Events and No. ... City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area  - % water 1,644 km² 0. ... Anatomy of Britain was a book written by Anthony Sampson and published by Hodder & Stoughton. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a natural person. ...

Among his other noted works:

• The New Europeans (1968)
• The Sovereign State of ITT (1973)
• The Seven Sisters (a study of the international oil industry) (1975)
• The Arms Bazaar (1977)
• The Money Lenders (1981) and
• Black Gold (about the crumbling of apartheid and the business/financial picture in South Africa) (1987)
• Company Man (1995)
• Mandela: The Authorized Biography (1999) - won the Alan Paton Award
• Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century (2004)

As that list indicates, he took an interest in broad political and economic power structure. But what a mere list can't convey is that Sampson saw power as personal, so his books often read like series of interlocked biographies -- of arms merchants, oil company executives, etc., according to the theme of each. He was a personal friend and biographer of Nelson Mandela. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The Sovereign State of ITT (1973) by Anthony Sampson, uses the example of ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph) to make a broader point about the weakening of the authority of traditional national governments by the multinational corporations. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ... Following the break up by the US Government of Standard Oil, several new companies were created, three of which, along with four other major oil companies, were once referred to as the Seven Sisters. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The Money Lenders 1981 is a book by British journalist Anthony Sampson that looks at the history of banking from the Renaissance to a meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC in 1980, with an emphasis on the interaction of finance with international diplomacy. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Black gold, in most of the world, refers to crude oil or petroleum. ... A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The Alan Paton Award - named for the author of Cry, The Beloved Country - has been conferred annually since 1989 for meritorious works of non-fiction. ... Who Runs This Place? (ISBN 0719565642), written by Anthony Sampson in 2004, details the structure of power in the United Kingdom - where it lies, who has it, and how much they have. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela IPA: (born July 18, 1918) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections. ...

Furthermore, the personal was for Sampson also the psychological, even the psychoanalytical, as this passage from The Money Lenders shows: This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

"[Bankers] seem specially conscious of time, always aware that time is money. There is always a sense of restraint and tension. (Is it part of the connection which Freud observed between compulsive neatness, anal eroticism, and interest in money?)"

External link

• John Smith, The Guardian, 21 December 2004, "Anthony Sampson" (obituary) [1]