Book Talk with Perry Garfinkel: Becoming Gandhi

On Friday, August 23, at 3:30pm, come to the West Tisbury Library for a book talk with author Perry Garfinkel. Perry will present his new book, Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma’s 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times. This event is free and open to the public.

About the book: “The fascinating quest of a New York Times contributor to follow Mahatma Gandhi’s code of ethics in modern times―and to discover what it actually takes to ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’

Mahatma Gandhi championed truth and nonviolence, led the struggle for India’s independence, and staunchly stood up for the marginalized. ‘When I despair,’ he said, ‘I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.’

In Becoming Gandhi, veteran journalist and author Perry Garfinkel sets out on a three-year quest to examine how Gandhi’s ideals have held up in a world beset by troubling trends. ‘As I saw myself and society moving further away from a moral point of view,’ Garfinkel states, ‘I wanted to see if an ordinary person living in the 21st century could, like Gandhi, follow a morally driven game plan.”

Perry Garfinkel is a veteran journalist, editor, frequent speaker, and author of the bestselling Buddha or Bust. He has contributed to many sections of the New York Times since 1986 and has written for National Geographic magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, and others. He has appeared on CNN and CBS This Morning. He is a frequent guest on WCBS-NY radio’s Health & Well-Being Report.

Perry wrote some of his last book, national bestseller Buddha or Bust, while living off Music Street at the home of the late Milton Mazer.