"A well-wrought historical narrative that adds significantly to our understanding of both figures."
Veteran historian Herman (To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World, 2004, etc.) offers an ambitious, reasoned joint biography of two great men.
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"A pleasant, homely tale of small lives intersecting with the great. The American author gets postwar Britain's cramped atmosphere just right."
In Heller's fanciful fifth novel (after Man's Storm, 1986, etc.), turmoil ensues when an elderly wife and mother in a small English village is revealed to have been an old flame of the Mahatma.
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"Appropriately complex biography, deftly maintaining a balance of sophistication and explication."
A dense, comprehensive survey of the events in Gandhi's life, tracing his metamorphosis from pampered child of privilege to "great soul."
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"Appropriately complex biography, deftly maintaining a balance of sophistication and explication."
A dense, comprehensive survey of the events in Gandhi's life, tracing his metamorphosis from pampered child of privilege to "great soul."
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