Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780671461478
ISBN number: 0671461478
Label: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 265
Printing Date: December 01, 1982
Publishing house: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books
Sale Popularity Level: 1792567
Studio: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books
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Product Description:
The problem with saints is, they are not interesting. Albert Einstein's quotation about Gandhi ('Generations to come...will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.') is overdone.
Thus William L. Shirer's contribution is a welcome breath of fresh air. He paints a man who is not only a saintly apostle on non-violence, but a shrewd politician, an impious wit, a revolutionary whose zeal was balanced by charity.
Shirer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, became a personal friend of Mahatma Gandhi when he covered the independence movement in India for the Chicago Tribune. His book shed light on a man who not only influenced history, but pointed the way for Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
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