Gandhi was not a very clever child. He was easily frightened. As a young man he was a failure in his first efforts as a lawyer. Then, suddenly, things began to happen.

A leader of men came into being, a man of great courage with a new way of looking at old problems.

Here is Gandhi's story—his boyhood in India; his student days in England; his experiences in South Africa through which he found his own way of fighting for truth and justice; his leadership of his own people in India in a struggle that ended in their victory and his death.

Gandhi won the respect of the world. Indeed, he was loved my millions who had never seen him.

From the book

Note: This book was first printed in Great Britain in 1959. The American edition was published through the courtesy of Frederick Muller Limited.