Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age - Couverture rigide

Herman, Arthur

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091797160 ISBN 13 : 9780091797164

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2008

Synopsis

The epic story of the rivalry that shaped the 20th century and poses questions for the 21st.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Acclaim for Arthur Herman

The Scottish Enlightenment

'Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves'

Irvine Welsh, Guardian

To Rule the Waves

'A long and generous book. It is readable, vigorous and well-informed'

Spectator

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091797160
• ISBN 13: 9780091797164
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 736
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible