1972 pulitzer prize-winning biography of mahatma gandhi
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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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Great Soul; Mahatma Gandhi - Hardcover
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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