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Joseph Lelyveld (1937–2024)

Autor/a de Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India

5+ obres 678 Membres 10 Ressenyes

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Joseph Lelyveld is executive editor of The New York Times.

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This book, by an award-winning reporter, describes in detail the apartheid system of South Africa in the mid-20th century.
 
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PendleHillLibrary | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jul 15, 2021 |
An excellent and seemingly evenhanded analysis of Gandhi's character, personal struggles, and impact on India and the 20th Century.
 
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dasam | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Jun 21, 2018 |
This detailed account of the final months of Franklin Roosevelt's life, beginning with the Tehran Conference in the fall of 1943, is extraordinarily informative and a pleasure to read. The author is a fine stylist and provides not only a good overview of the 1944 election campaign (such as it was) and the diplomacy of WWII, but minute examination of FDR's health, psychology, postwar plans, manner of handling people and of governance, and personal relationships. The book is neither hagiography nor a Peglerian hatchet job; although the author sees through many of Roosevelt's techniques in handling people who were, or whom he needed to make, allies, and at times takes a dim view of them, almost all of the eyewitness accounts upon which he relies were members of his administration or family, and thus, at bottom, if frank, rarely if ever totally hostile. True, the book is lengthy, but I learned many new things and I was sorry to see it end.… (més)
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Big_Bang_Gorilla | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | May 6, 2018 |
This is an exciting and fact filled account of Roosevelt's final year. His health declined, but he struggled to continue on for the sake of the war effort and the future that he envisioned for a post-war world. I found his relationships with Churchill and Stalin at this time to be fascinating. Eleanor is largely missing from this account so I was happy to have recently read the second volume of Blanche Weisen Cook's biography of Eleanor.
 
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gbelik | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Jan 8, 2018 |

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Membres
678
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4.0
Ressenyes
10
ISBN
30
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