''Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence'' is a 1969 book about
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...
by the German-born American
developmental psychologist
Developmental psychology is the science, scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult deve ...
Erik H. Erikson. It won the
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published du ...
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and the U.S.
National Book Award
The National Book Awards (NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. ...
in
category Philosophy and Religion.
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The book was republished in 1993 by Norton.
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1969 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Books by Erik Erikson
English-language non-fiction books
Books about Mahatma Gandhi
National Book Award–winning works
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction–winning works
W. W. Norton & Company books
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