Havel : a life
Žantovský, Michael, 1949-2014
Book
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.
Main title:
Havel : a life / Michael Zantovsky.
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Work:
Imprint:
New York : Grove Press, 2014.
Collation:
xiv, 543 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-527) and index.
Contents:
Partial contents: Machine generated contents note: 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 -- Then 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 --
ISBN:
9780802123152 (hardback)
Dewey class:
943.7043092943.7043
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
146360
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Biography | BIOG 943.7043 ZANT | Available |