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Havel : a life / Michael Zantovsky.
Van Pelt Library DB2241.H38 Z36 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Žantovský, Michael, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Havel, Václav.
- Presidents--Czech Republic--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Dissenters--Czechoslovakia--Biography.
- Dissenters.
- Dramatists, Czech.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Czech Republic.
- Dramatists, Czech--20th century--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 543 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grove Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Examines the life of a man who rose from being outcasted and imprisoned during Communist rule to become the last president of Czechoslovakia, the first president of the newly democratic Czech Republic and a human-rights activist.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-527) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802123155
- 9780802123152
- OCLC:
- 871211456
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