Gandhi and the Unspeakable: His Final Experiment with Truth - Hardcover

Douglass

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570759634 ISBN 13: 9781570759635

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2012

Synopsis

In 1948, at the dawn of his country s independence, Mohandas Gandhi, father of the Indian independence movement and a beloved prophet of nonviolence, was assassinated by Hindu nationalists. In riveting detail, author James W. Douglass shows as he previously did with the story of JFK how police and security forces were complicit in the assassination and how in killing one man, they hoped to destroy his vision of peace, nonviolence, and reconciliation. Gandhi had long anticipated and prepared for this fate. In reviewing the little-known story of his early experiments in truth in South Africa the laboratory for Gandhi s philosophy of satyagraha, or truth force Douglass shows how early he confronted and overcame the fear of death. And, as with his account of JFK s death, he shows why this story matters: what we can learn from Gandhi s truth in the struggle for peace and reconciliation today.

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Review

"A slim, elegant volume containing explosive insight into who conspired to assassinate the father of modern nonviolence and why. . . No other contemporary writer is exposing the mechanics of assassination as methodically and bravely as Douglass. But because he is a Catholic scholar and activist most well-known for his writings on nonviolence and suffering, this book is more than a fresh look at historical circumstances: it's spiritual spelunking into the depravity of unchecked political power."-- -- Publisher's Weekly - Starred Review "Publisher's Weekly"

"Well argued, documented, and very revealing." -- Arun Gandhi "President, Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, Rochester, NY"

Edition details

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1570759634
• ISBN 13: 9781570759635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 168