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Gandhi and Churchill
Arthur Herman
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Description for Gandhi and Churchill
Paperback. Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. They remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society. Yet the truth was Churchill and Gandhi were bitter enemies throughout their lives. This book reveals how that rivalry shaped the twentieth century and beyond. Num Pages: 736 pages, 3 maps, 24 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JJ; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 540.
Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired around the world. Today, they remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society.
Yet the truth was Churchill and Gandhi were bitter enemies throughout their lives. This book reveals, for the first time, how that rivalry shaped the twentieth century and beyond. For more than forty years, from 1906 to 1948, Gandhi and Churchill were locked in a tense struggle for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099493440
SKU
V9780099493440
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About Arthur Herman
Arthur Herman is the author of To Rule the Waves, The Scottish Enlightenment, The Idea of Decline in Western History and Joseph McCarthy. He has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, Catholic University, George Mason University and the University of the South. He served as the coordinator of the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian and has been ... Read more
Reviews for Gandhi and Churchill
You finish Gandhi & Churchill knowing that you can evaluate the world today, particularly modern India, with more knowledge and insight
USA Today
Exquisitely detailed ... replete with stories underscoring the gulf between Churchill's robust realism and Gandhi's ascetic utopianism
Washington Times
The rivalry between Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi could hardly have been played for ... Read more
USA Today
Exquisitely detailed ... replete with stories underscoring the gulf between Churchill's robust realism and Gandhi's ascetic utopianism
Washington Times
The rivalry between Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi could hardly have been played for ... Read more