Gandhi: The Truth Can Fight

Steve Pitt is a Toronto-based freelance writer and an award-winning journalist. He has written many young adult and children's books, including Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox.

There once was a frail young lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi. As the son of
a high-ranking court official in British-controlled India, Mohandas was
a bit of a spoiled brat. As a child, he was prone to lying, stealing,
smoking, and defiling his Hindu Brahmin caste by eating meat. In
England, where

he went to study law, Gandhi dressed like a European dandy and tried
hard to play the English gentleman.

The way this unpromising little anglophile became the greatest
nonviolent revolutionary of the 20th century, and the bane of the
British Empire, is wonderfully chronicled in this book. In prose that is
never boring, Finkel captures both the human side of Gandhi and the
complex issues he grappled with during his turbulent lifetime. In
addition to describing Gandhi’s central role in the establishment of a
free nation of India, she discusses his influence on the Western World,
and the misuse of his teachings by would-be activists.

Notwithstanding the lack of an index, Gandhi is a terrific resource for
young readers. Highly recommended.