Gandhi and Churchill
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409063636
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768

Gandhi and Churchill

The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

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The epic story of the rivalry that shaped the 20th century and poses questions for the 21st.

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 the hearts and minds of the British public, and of world opinion. Although they met only once, their titanic contest of wills would decide the fate of nations, continents, peoples, and ultimately an Empire.

Here is a sweeping epic with a fascinating supporting cast, and a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure - and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409063636
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 768
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About the author

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 the recipient of Fulbright, Mellon and Newcombe Foundation grants. He lives in Virginia.

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Praise 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 higher stakes. The future of British India hung upon the outcome of their 20-year struggle ... Herman has researched Gandhi & Churchill meticulously and written it fluently

Wall Street Journal

Herman's dual biography artfully depicts the personalities of the two men ... [and] takes careful account of the constellation of modern and antimodern currents of late Victorian thought in situating these vastly influential figures in a fascinating narrative of their times

Publishers Weekly

An insightful and engaging interpretation of a common history

Time Out