Gandhi and Churchill
The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Arthur Herman's Gandhi and Churchill is an uneven effort to parallel the lives of the Indian independence leader and British Prime Minister. Dual biographies tend to be awkward frameworks for analysis, especially since Gandhi and Churchill only met once in passing; this approach often tends to reduc......more

History written as the acts of “Great Men” makes for fun reading, but inaccurate historiography. While the author is presumably from this school, these two erstwhile great men—Gandhi and Churchill—seem often wretched, delusional, dogmatic and odious. Their lives were intertwined with the fate of bot......more

It's a a decent book is what I can say. It gets a few things right but the problem is it leaves a lot of topics hanging in mid air. For example in one of the chapters, there was this sentence "Gandhi almost killed his son Harilal, with his experiments" or something along the same lines. It is a very......more

Great exercise in demythologizing, especially of Gandhi It has been said of French president Clemenceau that he had one illusion, France, and one disillusion, mankind, including Frenchmen. Arthur Herman, in his magisterial new dual biography, shows how the same could be said of his twin protagonists o......more

(written for another purpose) I am no historian, or even a scholar who is well-versed in the material that this book concerns itself with. Therefore, this review is strictly a layman’s review. Popular historian Arthur Herman in this book scripts parallel biographies of MK Gandhi and Winston Churchill,......more