Havel: A Life

The "definitive biography" of the poet and political dissident who became the last president of Czechoslovakia-and first president of the Czech Republic (Walter Isaacson).

This portrait of Vaclav Havel, iconoclast and intellectual, renowned playwright turned political dissident, president of a united then divided nation, and dedicated human rights activist, is written by his former press secretary, advisor, and longtime friend-and recounts the turbulent twentieth-century era through which...