Book description
Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great
Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand
miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both
became living icons, idolized and admired around the world. Today,
they remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society.
Yet the truth was Churchill and Gandhi were bitter enemies
throughout their lives. This book reveals, for the first time, how
that rivalry shaped the twentieth century and beyond. For more than
forty years, from 1906 to 1948, Gandhi and Churchill were locked in a
tense struggle for the hearts and minds of the British public, and of
world opinion. Although they met only once, their titanic contest of
wills would decide the fate of nations, continents, peoples, and
ultimately an Empire.
Here is a sweeping epic with a fascinating supporting cast, and a
brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were
always haunted by personal failure - and whose final moments of
triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.
Arthur Herman is the author of
To Rule the Waves
,
The Scottish Enlightenment
,
The Idea of Decline in Western History
and
Joseph McCarthy.
He has been a professor of history at Georgetown University, Catholic
University, George Mason University and the University of the South. He
served as the coordinator of the Western Heritage Program at the
Smithsonian and has been the recipient of Fulbright, Mellon and Newcombe
Foundation grants. He lives in Virginia.
