Bronners biography of mahatma gandhi
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Among The Hagiographers-Gandhi and His Pathology, WSJ Book Review!!
Among The Hagiographers-Gandhi and His Pathology, WSJ Book Review!!
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Stephen Eric Bronner.Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century. Oxford and Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. 349 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8476-9387-0.
Reviewed by Tracey Gladstone-Sovell (Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls)
Published on H-Pol (March, 2000)
At the start of a new century, it is not at all surprising that we see scholars reflecting on the previous hundred years. Such is the case with this work. In it, Stephen Eric Bronner presents the reader with an "intellectual history" that has a political purpose. As its title would imply, Ideas in Action is not a "disinterested" scholarly treatise. It has a self acknowledged "political intent" which is "informed by a concern with the social implications of epistemological assumptions" and which "highlights the friction between theory and practice" (p. ix). Bronner claims that his is the first attempt to come to terms with the past one hundred years of political theory. "No book has sought to provide an overview of the major political traditions of the twentieth century,..., let alone interpret them with an eye upon their practical impact" (p. ix). To the best of my knowledge he is correct. And while I am certain that his
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The Story Of My Experiments With Truth: Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography
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By Mahatma Gandhi
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This unusual autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, is a window to the workings of Mahatma Gandhi' s mind, a window to the emotions of his heart, a window to understanding what drove this seemingly ordinary man to the heights of being the father of a nation— India.Starting with his days as a boy, Gandhi takes one through his trials and turmoils and situations that moulded his philosophy of life: going through child marriage, his studies in England, practicing Law in South Africa— and his Satyagraha there— to the early beginnings of the Independence movement in India.He did not aim to write an autobiography but rather share the experience of his various experiments with truth to arrive at what he perceived as Absolute Truth— the ideal of his struggle against racism, violence and colonialism.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was an Indian lawyer, nationalist, and civil rights activist. Born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, he was first given the honorary title of Mahatma—Sanskrit for “great-souled”—in 1914 while living in South Africa. Raised in Gujarat in a prominent Hindu family, he travelled to London and