The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi

Boards show light shelf wear, Price-clipped DJ has heavier wear with short tears, creasing and light soiling. 1/2" square piece missing from DJ at front top near spine. Blind stamp lower back corner of book indicates a book club. . ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, B&W photographs, stated first edition ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 703 pages; "Robert Payne re-creates Mahatma Gandhi both as a spiritual and historical force and as a living personality. Beginning with the moving story of a shy, awkward boy from a provincial Indian city who married at thirteen, then was separated from his bride for years while he read law in London, the book describe Gandhi's life as a successful barrister in South Africa who turned his back on wealth to defend Indian settlers against discrimination and persecution. In the tradition of his best-selling biographies of Lenin and Schweitzer, Robert Payne's life brings Gandhi alive as a rounded personality. Payne superbly describes Gandhi's daring marches to aid the oppressed, his fasts and imprisonments, his historic achievements at international congresses and conferences in India and England where, clad only in shawl and loincloth, he met with prime ministers and viceroys and won their respect as he fought for the dignity and freedom of his people."

Product Info

Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co

Year: 1969

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

Seller Info

AinsworthBooks

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Country: Canada