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Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Price: $35
Pages:462
You might think that being worshipped as a god would be the ultimate dream come true — all that power and pageantry and extravagant adoration. But as I learned from Anna Della Subin’s Accidental Gods,what’s even more striking than the surprising frequency with which mortal men have been “unwittingly turned divine” is how often they tried to disavow their newfound exaltation.
“I am not God” was a sentence that Gandhi found himself saying again and again. During Jawaharlal Nehru’s political ascent in the 1930s, the man who would become
