Another revered historic figure takes a fall

The Camp of the Saints refers us to read this book review in the Wall Street Journal about Gandhi. According to reviewer Andrew Roberts, the book on Gandhi, "Great Soul," by author Joseph Lelyvold "gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who was often downright cruel to those around him. Gandhi was therefore the archetypal 20th-century progressive ­intellectual, professing his love for ­mankind as a concept while actually ­despising people as individuals."