The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice - Hardcover

Havel, Vaclav

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679451064 ISBN 13: 9780679451068

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

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Book by Havel Vaclav

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In a collection of writings that span from 1990 to 1996, the president of the Czech Republic shares his thoughts on the world of politics, from his first days in office, through his initiation into the complexities of foreign affairs and his country's division, to the present day. 17,500 first printing.

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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. Václav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to turn over either his conscience or his voice to political handlers and professional speechwriters. Instead he assumes the additional burden--for him, it is a distinct pleasure--of composing all of his oratory. Audiences from New York to New Delhi, Oslo to Tokyo, have been the luckier for his decision.

This volume consists of thirty-five of these essays, written between the years 1990 and 1996, that manage to be both profoundly personal and profoundly political. Havel writes of totalitarianism, its miseries and the nonetheless difficult emergence from it.

He describes how h

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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679451064
• ISBN 13: 9780679451068
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273