Indira - Hardcover

Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039573097X ISBN 13: 9780395730973

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 2002

Synopsis

An objective, detailed portrait of India's third prime minister, Indira Nehru Gandhi, draws on previously unpublished sources and more than one hundred interviews to chronicle the life and times of one of the world's most influential political leaders, from her youth, through her rise to political power, to her assassination and its aftermath.

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Review:

'A stunning biography. Indira Gandhi was voted Woman of the Millennium, and yet her story is of a woman pushed into the public eye by men, corrupted by power and assassinated by those she should have trusted best – her own bodyguards' Jenni Murray, Sunday Times

'Well-researched, convincing and impressively fair to its subject' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph

'A fascinating account of how an unpromising, if privileged, girl came to lead the world's largest democracy. Anyone who wants to get to the heart of this extraordinary woman (and the extraordinary country which she mothered, cajoled and eventually came to embody), could not do better than this accomplished book' Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

'Moving and revealing' Victoria Schofield, Financial Times

'An important study... compelling and humanly sympathetic' Sunil Khilnani, Sunday Telegraph

'An excellent biography' Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian

'A fascinating, rigorous highly readable study' Caroline Macdonald, Scotsman

About the Author:

KATHERINE FRANK’s most recent biography, A Passage to Egypt: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon, earned a rave front-page review in the New York Times Book Review, which called it "a masterpiece." Frank is also the author of A Voyager Out, a life of Mary Kingsley, and A Chainless Soul, a life of Emily Brontė, which was hailed as "a near perfect work" (New York Daily News). Her work on Indira involved six years of extensive travel and research.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 039573097X
• ISBN 13: 9780395730973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592