Joan Bondurant

Joan Bondurant
Born(1918-12-18)December 18, 1918
Great Bend, Kansas
DiedSeptember 12, 2006(2006-09-12) (aged 87)
Tucson, Arizona[1]
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science, civil resistance, nonviolent revolution
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of the Pacific

Joan Valerie Bondurant (1918–2006) was an American political scientist and former spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.[1] She is best known as the author of Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (1958), a book on Gandhian political philosophy.

  1. ^ a b Squatriglia, Charles (21 September 2006). "Joan Bondurant -- spy, authority on Gandhi [obituary]". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 18 June 2013.