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Summer Meditations
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Eastern European HistoryGeneral Political Science
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ISBN10: 0679744975
ISBN13: 9780679744979
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 1993
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.19 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679744979
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jun 1 1993
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.19 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
In a book written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel combines the same powerful eloquence, moral passion, and abiding wisdom that informed his writing as a dissident and playwright, with a candor unprecedented from one with the broad perspective and infinite responsibility of governing a country.
Havel, now president of the Czech Republic, addresses the legacy of Communism as the euphoria of the Velvet Revolution gives way to a more problematic reality. Yet even as he grapples with the challenges of political change, he affirms his belief in a politics motivated by moral responsibility; in an economy tempered by compassion; and in the central roles of art and culture in the transformation of society. Summer Meditations is not only a timely and necessary testament of events in Eastern Europe but a profound reflection upon the nature and practice of politics and a stirring call for morality, civility, and openness in public life throughout the world.
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