About the Book: Gandhi: My Life Is My Message
How did this shy, unassuming lawyer transform himself into the leader of Indias
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