Product Description: Vaclav Havel - dissident, activist, essayist, philosopher, politician, founder and president of the Czech Republic - is known the world over as a hero of the human rights movement and a martyr for the "right to write." But few in the West know that he is also his country's most famous playwright...read more

Product Description: A unique interweaving of the influences of politics and theater revealed in a spellbinding narrative of the life of Václav Havel during Czechoslovakia’s struggle for freedom. Václav Havel –dissident, activist, essayist, philosopher, politician, founder and president of the Czech Replublic—is known throughout the world as a hero of the human rights movement and martyr for the "right to write" (he was imprisoned many times under Communism in his country)...read more

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