This rich and varied portrait of Nehru as international statesman, Gandhian revolutionary, parliamentarian, writer, and family man comprises 115 contributions from prominent politicians, amongst them Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Christian Pineau, Alec Douglas-Home, and JamesCallaghan, and distinguished Indian scholars and diplomats, as well as including classic pieces by Bertrand Russell, U. Thant, Gandhi, Arnold Toynbee, and Tito.Of special interest is Gorbachev's study of Nehru's conduct in foreign affairs, which combined the pragmatism and idealism central to the contemporary policy of glasnost.