"Inviting and original." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook and
changed the world in their quest for peace among all people, but what
threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of
social revolution?
A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in
British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century.
A minister from Georgia with a thunderous voice and hopes for peace at
the height of the civil rights movement in America.
Born more than a half-century apart, with seemingly little in common
except one shared wish, both would go on to be icons of peaceful
resistance and human decency. Both preached love for all human beings,
regardless of race or religion. Both believed that freedom and justice
were won by not one, but many. Both met their ends in the most
unpeaceful of ways--assassination.
But what led them down the path of peace? How did their experiences
parallel...and diverge? Threads of Peace keenly examines and
celebrates these extraordinary activists' lives, the threads that
connect them, and the threads of peace they laid throughout the world,
for us to pick up, and weave together.