1972 pulitzer prize-winning biography of mahatma gandhi

  • Great Soul In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate.
  • A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments?his success in seizing India?s imagination.
  • This Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 1972 winners.
  • Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography 9780300187380

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    Gandhi

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    Arvind Sharma

    gandhi A Spiritual Biography

    New Haven & London

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    "A revelation. . . . Lelyveld has restored human depth to the Mahatma."
    --Hari Kunzru, "The New York Times"
    "Lelyveld shows us Gandhi in tight close-up, and he places the man in various frames of reference--social, political and religious--that allow us to understand and appreciate him not as a plaster saint but as a flesh-and-blood human who wrote himself into history, and not only because of his shimmering vision of a more perfect world but also because of his sheer force of will."
    --Jonathan Kirsch, "Los Angeles Times"
    "Lelyveld brings . . . an intimate knowledge based on his years as a foreign correspondent for "The New York Times" in both South Africa and India and the exhaustive research he conducted with a rare and finely balanced sympathy. . . . The picture that emerges is of someone intensely human, with all the defects and weaknesses that suggests, but also a visionary with a profound social conscience and courage who gave

  • 1972 pulitzer prize-winning biography of mahatma gandhi