A collection of critical essays on a Czech playwright and president, showing him from various perspectives. Contributions range from political analyses and hist

Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written sh

There is no shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Vaclav Havel knows no

The “definitive biography” of the poet and political dissident who became the last president of Czechoslovakia—and first president of the Czech Republic (