Annal:1970 National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1970. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
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- National Book Award
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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence
- 1970 NBA–Philosophy winner
- 1970 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 20.2
In this acclaimed study of Mahatma Gandhi, the renowned psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically, as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant nonviolence and India the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.
