Gandhi
An Autobiography – The Story of My Experiments With Truth
About the book
When asked midway through his career to write an autobiography, Mohandas Gandhi, by then famous for his nonviolent campaigns against racism and colonial rule in South Africa and India, used it to explain himself. He worried that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to outrun a deeper grasp of his search for truth, which was rooted in devotion to God. He describes his efforts to come closer to that divine power through simple living, experiments with diet, celibacy and a life without violence. Rather than a conventional narrative biography, the book presents his life as a record for those who might follow his path.
It appears on a list of every book Barack Obama recommended during his presidency, and Apple chief executive Tim Cook said he was reading it after visiting a Gandhi museum in India.
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Recommended by Barack Obama (Former USA President)
Source: Every book Barack Obama has recommended during his presidency
Tim Cook (CEO/Apple)
I have two books going right now: One is the Bobby Kennedy book [“Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon,” by Larry Tye] that just came out. The other is quite an old book. It’s a Gandhi book [“Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth”] that I got interested in because we went to the Gandhi museum when we were in India recently. I tend to like nonfiction and particularly reading about people and how they lived and how they fought, and what motivated them and their philosophy and so forth.
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