Havel : a life

To chci

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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Hlavní autor

Michael Žantovský, 1949-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

xiv, 543 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Vydáno

New York : Grove Press, [2014]

Témata

Havel, Václav, > 1936-2011

20.-21. století

prezidenti > Česko > 20.-21. století

čeští dramatici > 20.-21. století

disidenti > Československo

presidents > Czechia > 20th-21st centuries

Czech dramatists > 20th-21st centuries

dissenters > Czechoslovakia

biografie

biography

ISBN

9780802123152 (hardback)

Obsah

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.