Who are the people who rise above the status quo to make History? Are they born with morethan the usual share of courage and conviction?Or are they forged by their circumstances and influences till their inner conviction glows like fireand lights revolutions along the way?This book takes up 20 greatest revolutionaries from modern history and goes through their livesto understand how they rose to positions of power and how they inspired the masses to followtheir goals, sometimes by personal charisma and at times with nothing more than an unwaveringfaith in an ideal.20 Greatest Revolutionaries also looks at how they shaped not only the history of their country butat times, even that of the world. Finally, it also looks at the legacy they left behind, despite theirpopularity waxing and waning with the passage of time because of changing ideological perceptions.Read this book to know what goes into the making of a leader or a mass uprising, and how suchmovements impact the world we live in today.
About the Author
Kalyani Mookherji is an alumnus of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, from where she finishedher post-graduation in English Literature. She has been a writer and educator for over ten yearsnow. She also runs a popular literary workshop for children, Feeling Bookerish, in Wellington, atown in The Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, where she currently resides after having travelled thelength and breadth of India as an army wife.Despite being a busy mom to a bright teen and a spoilt dog, she finds time for her other interests,such as music, baking and blogging at crumbsonmynotebook.wordpress.com. Previously, she haswritten 100 Greatest Sportspersons, 20 Greatest Political Philosophers and 20 Greatest Artists.
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