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    Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts

    By John Keane

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    The definitive biography of the playwright who become a president: Vaclav Havel, the final president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the new Czech Republic

    Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy.

    Beginning as a playwright intimately involved in the Prague theatre scene, Havel moved steadily into activism and political dissidence, resulting in imprisonment and culminating in his remarkable election as president in the last days of Soviet-dominated Czechoslovakia. He would oversee the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia into two modern democracies, and his fourteen-year tenure as president was critical to the development of peace and prosperity in the region.

    But who was this man, the president who never sought political power, the playwright who stumbled into high office? In this study, John Keane reveals a Havel so far unseen, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateApr 2, 2012
    ISBN9781408832080
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    Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts
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    John Keane

    John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, and is the author of a number of distinguished books including The Life and Death of Democracy and The New Despotism.

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