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Kuper, Simon

Summary: "With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world-and how that era is now ending"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 KUP

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Mullin, James

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University College Dublin Press 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.5081 MUL

Florio, John

Summary: "...recount[s] the politically and racially charged rivalry between African-American boxing champion Joe Louis and white German boxer Max Schmeling, which grew between their 1936 and 1938 matches. Tracing both men's careers from inception until they hung up their gloves, the authors illuminate how emblematic each was to his country while exploring the social issues of the day."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.83 FLO

Butcher, Tim

Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 BUT

Darby, Seyward

Summary: Presents a revelatory portrait of white nationalism that traces the lives of three women supporters whose respective experiences with the far right shaped their radicalization.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DAR

McGinty, Alice B.

Summary: Documents the 1930 Satyagraha protest movement, describing how Gandhi led a twenty-four-day march to the sea to demonstrate against Great Britain's salt tax while offering insight into his beliefs about non-violent civil disobedience.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Children's Pub. 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GAN

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