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...