Gandhi and Churchill

You finish Gandhi & Churchill knowing that you can evaluate the world today, particularly modern India, with more knowledge and insight * USA Today *Exquisitely detailed … replete with stories underscoring the gulf between Churchill’s robust realism and Gandhi’s ascetic utopianism * Washington Times *The rivalry between Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi could hardly have been played for higher stakes. The future of British India hung upon the outcome of their 20-year struggle … Herman has researched Gandhi & Churchill meticulously and written it fluently * Wall Street Journal *An insightful and engaging interpretation of a common history * Time Out *Herman’s dual biography artfully depicts the personalities of the two men … [and] takes careful account of the constellation of modern and antimodern currents of late Victorian thought in situating these vastly influential figures in a fascinating narrative of their times * Publishers Weekly *

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.

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