Sampson authored several books about South Africa, including The Treason Cage: The Opposition On Trial In South Africa (1958), Common Sense About Africa (1960) and South Africa: Two Views Of Separate Development (1960) with S. Pienaar, and about how Britain works as a state, starting with Anatomy of Britain (1962). The energy crisis of 1973 led him to investigate the oil companies and to publish The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped (1975). He then wrote about arms dealers — The Arms Bazaar: The Companies, the Dealers, the Bribes: From Vickers to Lockheed (1977) — and large corporations — The Money Lenders: Bankers in a Dangerous World (1981), Empires of the Sky: The Politics, Contests and Cartels of World Airlines (1984), Black and Gold: Tycoons, Revolutionaries and Apartheid (1987), The Midas Touch: Money, People and Power from West to East (1989) and Company Man: The Rise and Fall of Corporate Life (1995). He also wrote an official biography of Mandela, Mandela: The Authorised Biography (1999), which won the Alan Paton Award, and his autobiography, published posthumously, The Anatomist.
Sampson narrated series for the BBC, and served as Chairman of The Society of Authors, trustee of the Guardian and Observer's Trust, and on the international advisory board of Independent Newspapers (South Africa). He was a founding member of the (now defunct) Social Democratic Party (SDP). (photo: David Levenson, Getty Images).
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