Louis Fischer (1896–1970)

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1. Mahatma Gandhi

   Author of Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas, Gandhi on Non-Violence: A Selection From the Writings of Mahatma Gandi

2. Isaac Deutscher

   Author of Stalin: A Political Biography, The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-1929, The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940

3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

   Author of August 1914, The Gulag Archipelago Two, The Gulag Archipelago Three

4. Theodore R. Sizer

   Author of Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School, Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School, Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School

5. Louis Fischer

   Author of Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

6. Martin Luther King, Jr.

   Author of Why we can't wait, A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love

7. John Kenneth Galbraith

   Author of The New Industrial State, Economics and the Public Purpose

8. Matthew Fox

   Author of Original Blessing, The Reinvention of Work: New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, A

9. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Discoverers, The Americans: The Democratic Experience

10. Erik H. Erikson

    Author of Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

11. Albert Schweitzer

    Author of Out of My Life and Thought

12. Harvey Cox

    Author of The Secular City

13. David Tyack

    Author of Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education

14. Deborah Meier

    Author of The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization

15. Leon Trotsky

    Author of History of the Russian Revolution, Russian Revolution

16. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

    Author of The Phenomenon of Man

17. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

    Author of On Death and Dying

18. Will Durant

    Author of The Story of Philosophy

19. Fernand Braudel

    Author of The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2, The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3

20. Jawaharlal Nehru

    Author of The Discovery of India