Noteworthy Books
- Mahatma Gandhi byCall Number: Kroch Library Asia DS481.G3 D215x 1993ISBN: 0231081189Publication Date: 1993-11-01This book moves from the birth of Gandhi's method of nonviolent resistance in South Africa to an in-depth analysis of two of his signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement of 1930 and his historic Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton concluded with a comparison of Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
- Gandhi and King byCall Number: Kroch Library Asia HM1281 .N63 2004ISBN: 0275965740Publication Date: 2004-05-30The lives and works of Mohandis Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. have much to teach us about nonviolent resistance to oppression. This book presents a comparative analysis of their legacies that demonstrates how powerful peace and love can be, even in the face of hate-filled oppression, aggression, and violence.
- Great Soul byCall Number: Kroch Library Asia DS481.G3 L337 2011ISBN: 9780307269584Publication Date: 2011-03-29A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments -his success in seizing India's imagination and shaping its independence struggle as a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of his followers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals of social justice for the country's minorities, outcasts, and rural poor.
- Gandhi byCall Number: Kroch Library Asia DS481.G3 G2165 2008ISBN: 9780520255708Publication Date: 2008-03-10This 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.
- Gandhi byCall Number: Kroch Library Asia DS481.G3 S4593 2012ISBN: 9780321333056Publication Date: 2011-11-08Concise and incisive, each interpretive biography in the Library of World Biography Series focuses on a person whose actions and ideas either significantly influenced world events or whose life reflects important themes and developments in global history.