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Soundar, Chitra

Summary: "Born in a small town in India, growing up to study law, he became a powerful voice for change and is now known all over the world as a symbol of perseverance and peace."--Amazon.com.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Gandhi

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

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: Highlights the life and career of the Indian statesman and nationalist, from his youth to his civil disobedience to his assassination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2017

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

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I am Gandhi
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Set I Am 921 Gandhi 2017

Fankhouser, Kris

Summary: "A biography on the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018

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

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

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

Gandhi, Rajmohan.

Summary: This monumental biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the twentieth century, written by his grandson, is the first to give a complete and balanced account of Mahatma Gandhi's remarkable life, the development of his beliefs and his political campaigns, and his complex relations with his family. Written with unprecedented insight and access to family archives, it reveals a life of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haus 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954 GAN

Kuhn, Betsy.

Summary: This book follows Mohandas Gandhi's development of his nonviolent protest theories from his days as a young lawyer in South Africa to his later leadership in India. In a defining civil rights gesture Gandhi defied Great Britain's salt monopoly in India when he led a march to a beach and picked up a handful of salt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2011

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954.035 KUH

Guha, Ramachandra

Summary: This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2018

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

Coonts, Stephen

Summary: When Japan invades Russia for its oil, the American government sends a squadron of aircraft to help defend Russia, leading to high-tech dog fights between American F-22s and Japanese Zero fighters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COO

Jaffe, Eric.

Summary: "From an 'illuminating and entertaining' (The New York Times) historian comes the World War II story of two men whose remarkable lives improbably converged at the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946. In the wake of World War II, the Allied forces charged twenty-eight Japanese men with crimes against humanity. Correspondents at the Tokyo trial thought the evidence fell most heavily on ten of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 952.04 OKAWA, SHUMEI JAF

Mackay, James A. (James Alexander)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mainstream Pub. 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALLACE, WILLIAM MAC

Pawel, Rebecca

Summary: Rising to the position of sergeant in the Guardia Civil, young law student Tejada works to impose order in the ruins of Madrid when his best friend is found murdered, and in the wake of unlikely suspects, he finds himself seeking justice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAW

Birch, Beverley.

Summary: Follows the life of the statesman who was a key figure in India's fight for independence from Great Britain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. Stevens Children's Books 1990

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB GANDHI BIR

Demi

Summary: Illustrated biography of Mahatma Gandhi, who vowed to instigate social and political change through nonviolent means and succeeded in changing India's prejudicial caste system and winning India's independence from Great Britain

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret McElderry Books 2001

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

Gandhi Bhattacharjee, Tara.

Summary: An inspirational and vivid behind-the-scenes biography of the Gandhi family and the tumult of India's independence by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi. The granddaughter of both Gandhiji and Rajaji, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee's childhood was peopled by freedom fighters and leaders who laid the foundation for an independent India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANDHI, TARA BHA

Hamilton, Hugo.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Estate 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 HAM

Jeffries, Joyce

Summary: "The concept of nationalism is often in the news, and it can be challenging to understand why it often leads to heated debates. However, it's important for people to think critically about nationalism and its effects. Readers are encouraged to do this as they explore historical and up-to-date examples of nationalism through accessible text and detailed fact boxes"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: KidHaven Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 320.54 JEF

Stewart, Katherine

Summary: For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.7 STE

Walia, Harsha

Summary: In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021

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Mishra, Pankaj

Summary: "One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis. How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909 MIS

Rhodes, Benjamin

Summary: "In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 RHO

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 909.83 RHO

Suri, Jeremi

Summary: "In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume their former lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 SUR

Mohamed, Premee

Summary: "Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Summary: Examines 1949 and prelude to the Korean War. Also, Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate Harry S. Truman.

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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