
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
#73 of 3,809 books · #40 in Biography & Memoir
Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1970) and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1970).
In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
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- W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780393347364
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Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1970)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(1970)
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