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Article: Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi.(Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- October 17, 2001
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By Stanley Wolpert. Oxford University Press, 308 pp., $27.50.
IN A CYNICAL and materialistic age, Gandhi will always be seen as hopelessly out of touch: a holy man who is wholly wrong, a man who lacked understanding of the way things work and the way things have to be.
Yet Gandhi's life was a strike against such bone-dry fatalism, and it's the cynics of his time who were proven to be unrealistic. Gandhi liberated India from Britain's heavy and oppressive rule, and he did so by sheer moral force, the force of truth, or "satyagraha."
This book's thesis is that "by re-creating himself, through the power of his passion, in the humble, vulnerable ...