New Releases by Joseph Lelyveld

''महात्मा गांधीं आणि त्यांचा भारतीय संघर्ष'' (ग्रेट सोल महात्मा गांधी) हे पुस्तक गांधींच्या जीवनाचा सर्वांगीण वेध घेतं. गांधींनी पाहिलेली मोठ्या कार्याची स्वप्ने, सामाजिक मूल्यांचे त्यांना आलेले भान आणि अहिंसक प्रतिरोधाचे त्यांचे तत्त्वज्ञान परक्या उपखंडात (दक्षिण आफ्रिकेत त्यांनी घालविलेल्या दोन दशकांत) कसे फुलले, पोसले गेले आणि त्यांना ''महात्मा'' म्हणून डोक्यावर घेणाऱ्या भारताने त्यांची तत्त्वं कशी पायदळी तुडवली, याचे वर्णन या पुस्तकात आहे. महात्मा गांधी एक प्रतिष्ठीत वकील, जो राजकीय आणि सामाजिक कृति-कार्यक्रमांना स्वत ला वाहून घेताना पंचा गुंडाळलेला संन्यासी कसा होतो याचे मनोज्ञ दर्शन या पुस्तकातून घडते.

"The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged."

Mahatma Gandhi é uma biografia pouco convencional do grande líder indiano. O livro silencia sobre a primeira juventude de Gandhi e se inicia com o protagonista já instalado na África do Sul como advogado, em 1893, após os primeiros anos em Gujarat, na Índia, e a educação profissional em Londres. Como ressalta Joseph Lelyveld na introdução ao volume, a experiência sul-africana proporcionou ao jovem Gandhi um estreito contato com a tragédia do racismo e do colonialismo britânico, tendo se mostrado fundamental na formação moral e política do Mahatma (título honorífico que significa "Grande Alma"). O consagrado jornalista norte-americano reconstitui os passos desse personagem complexo e fascinante - libertador da Índia, ideólogo da desobediência civil e símbolo máximo do pacifismo num século marcado por guerras mundiais e genocídios - com foco em sua atuação política, sem contudo negligenciar os acontecimentos pessoais decisivos. Resultado de pesquisas exaustivas na África do Sul e na Índia, o livro apresenta o homem Gandhi em sua totalidade problemática, enxergando por trás dos mitos criados por seus seguidores e inimigos. O autor não hesita em destacar os numerosos fracassos do Mahatma, o principal dos quais talvez tenha sido o sonho da unidade entre hindus e muçulmanos. Do mesmo modo, temas como sua ambígua sexualidade e a tendência à autopromoção são abordados com admirável sensibilidade crítica.

Biography of Gandhi that focuses on the sense of mission, social values, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance that shaped him during his two decades in South Africa.

In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi''s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden--against Gandhi''s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.

The profoundly moving family history of one of America''s greatest newspapermen. As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld was the celebrated rabbi. Nicknamed "the memory boy" by his parents, the fifty-nine-year-old son begins to revisit the portion of his father''s life recorded in letters, newspaper clippings, and mementos stored in a dusty camp trunk. In an excursion into an unsettled and shakily recalled period of his boyhood, Lelyveld uses these artifacts, and the journalistic reporting techniques of his career as an author and editor, to investigate memories that have haunted him in adult life.. With equal measures of candor and tenderness, Lelyveld unravels the tangled story of his father and his mother, a Shakespeare scholar whose passion for independence led her to recoil from her roles as a clergyman''s wife and, for a time, as a mother. This reacquired history of his sometimes troubled family becomes the framework for the author''s story; in particular, his discovery in early adolescence of the way personal emotions cue political choices, when he is forced to choose sides between his father and his own closest adult friend, a colleague of his father''s who is suddenly dismissed for concealing Communist ties. Lelyveld''s effort to recapture his family history takes him on an unforeseen journey past disparate landmarks of the last century, including the Scottsboro trials, the Zionist movement, the Hollywood blacklist, McCarthyism, and Mississippi''s "freedom summer" of 1964. His excursion becomes both a meditation on the selectivity and unreliability of memory and a testimony to the possibilities, even late in life, for understanding and healing. In Omaha Blues, as Lelyveld seeks out the truth of his life story, he evokes a remarkable moment in our national story with unforgettable poignancy.

Beschrijving van het dagelijkse leven in Zuid-Afrika waar zowel blank als zwart de gevolgen van de rassenwetten ondervinden.