Gandhi : : my Life is my Message

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How did this shy, unassuming lawyer transform himself into the leader of India's freedom movement? Renouncing wealth, ambition and comfort, Gandhi led by example, becoming one with the people he sought to free, facing imprisonment, hardship and humiliation while never raising his voice in anger. His strategy of nonviolent protest would become the model for the US civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and continues to change history throughout the world. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as the Mahatma or Great Soul, took on the might of the British Empire armed only with a message of love and non-violence. In Gandhi: Apostle of Peace we discover the man behind the legend, following him from his birth in the Indian coastal town of Porbandar in 1869, to the moment of his tragic death at the hands of an assassin in January 1948, just months after the Independence of India.

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graphic biography submitted by camelsamba on July 22, 2019, 11:36pm Biography of Gandhi, told in first-person in a graphic format. The artwork is fairly muted for the most part, except for the two page spread about the Amritsar massacre, which is jarringly fiery. The spreads are well done. The writing bogs down a bit - after all, there is a lot to tell! - but it makes for slow reading. I feel that I got a good overview of what drove Gandhi and the various movements he was a part of. It must have been difficult to be a member of his family or a close associate.