The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Thursday, December 23, 2004  

ANTHONY SAMPSON
Requiescat in Pacem

Anthony Sampson, scholar, biographer, and journalist, 1926-2004.

Sampson, author of more than 20 books, including such revered classics (some of them strangely out of print) as: Mandela : The Authorized Biography; Company Man: The Rise and Fall of Corporate Life; The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Made; The Sovereign State of ITT; and Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed

Sampson, who also wrote for London’s Observer and Independent during his long career, passed away Saturday at his home in Wiltshire, England.

For more about Sampson, see the obituary in Tuesday’s New York Times by Margalit Fox.

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