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Lelyveld, Joseph.

Summary: In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi's own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, MAHATMA LEL

Lelyveld, Joseph

Summary: "Untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax"--Dust jacket flap. "'By far the most enigmatic leading figure' of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN LEL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B ROOSEVELT LEL

Lelyveld, Joseph.

Summary: A brilliantly illuminating book on Mahatma Gandhi that enriches our understanding of his means, his accomplishments, and his failures. Gandhi has long been considered a visionary and a martyr. And certainly, he was that rare leader wholly devoted to his people. But in this ambitious, stirring, original study, Pulitzer Prize--winner Joseph Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi's accomplishments as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011

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