Havel : a life

Havel : a life / Michael Zantovsky.

Examines the life of a man who rose from being an outcast and prisoner during Communist rule to becoming the last president of Czechoslovakia, the first president of the newly democratic Czech Republic and a human-rights activist.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Žantovský, Michael, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Havel, Václav.
Presidents > Czech Republic > Biography.
Dissenters > Czechoslovakia > Biography.
Dramatists, Czech > 20th century > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 18 December 2011, a dark cold day
  • Born with a silver spoon
  • Portrait of the artist as a very young man
  • The silver wind
  • Good soldier Havel
  • Olga
  • The apprentice
  • The garden party
  • The sixties
  • A private school of politics
  • The memorandum
  • The gathering storm
  • Scoundrel times
  • Mountain hotel
  • Roll out the barrels
  • The beggar's opera
  • It's only rock 'n' roll
  • The charter
  • The mistake
  • The greengrocer revolt
  • The empire strikes back
  • The trial
  • Dear Olga
  • Free at last
  • The praise of folly
  • The battle for Wenceslas Square
  • That velvet thing
  • The fog of revolution
  • The road to the castle
  • The bag of fleas
  • The president of rock 'n' roll
  • First we take Manhattan
  • The we'll take the Kremlin
  • The innocents abroad
  • Making the fish
  • The end of Czechoslovakia
  • Waiting as a state of hope
  • The bonfire of scruples
  • In search of allies
  • Back to Europe
  • The yin and the yang
  • Between life and death
  • The ugly mood
  • Farewell to arms
  • Paroled
  • Leaving.

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