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The former Times columnist Russell Baker<\/a>, in The New York Review of Books, wrote: \u201cAmong the Lelyvelds, confusion, misunderstanding, and too much silence at all levels were the makings of an obviously unhappy family, whose members, if asked, Lelyveld says, would have called themselves a happy family. His book is more like life than memoir.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Lelyveld went on to write \u201cGreat Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India\u201d (2011), a book, critics said, that stood out among some 30 biographies of Mohandas K. Gandhi for its sweeping examination of Gandhi\u2019s civil disobedience campaign to win India\u2019s independence from Britain in 1947 and the life of Hindu asceticism and celibacy that was the foundation of his moral authority.<\/p>\n

By also exploring Gandhi\u2019s erotically charged friendship with the German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder Hermann Kallenbach, the book raised protests and was banned in Gandhi\u2019s home state, Gujarat. Mr. Lelyveld rejected assertions that his book had hinted that Gandhi was bisexual.<\/p>\n

Mr. Lelyveld\u2019s last book, \u201cHis Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt\u201d (2016), resurrected the dramas of F.D.R.\u2019s last 16 months when, with a diagnosis of congestive heart failure, the president won an unprecedented fourth term, oversaw development of the atomic bomb, met Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, and directed American forces in the penultimate stages of World War II.<\/p>\n

Times colleagues often wondered about Mr. Lelyveld\u2019s long pauses and blank stares in conversation. They seemed intimidating, but may have meant something more benign. In \u201cOmaha Blues,\u201d he recalled that to celebrate his and Carolyn\u2019s fifth wedding anniversary, his parents took them to dinner and used the occasion to announce their own plans to divorce after 30 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard to know what to say,\u201d he wrote. \u201c\u2018I\u2019m sorry\u2019 wouldn\u2019t have been welcomed. \u2018I\u2019m not surprised\u2019 would have seemed unfeeling. \u2018Mazel tov\u2019 would have sounded sarcastic. My guess is I mumbled another form of \u2018Good luck,\u2019 maybe \u2018Bonne chance,\u2019 or simply gave my parents one of those blank stares that my dad, in particular, had always found disconcerting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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