Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

A stirring collection of political essays, letters, speeches, autobiographical sketches, interviews and musings, mostly from the years that Havel,former Czechoslovakia's president, spent as his nation's leading dissident. This selection of Havel's best essays written since 1965 is a fascinating chronicle of the development and ideas of the greatly admired Czechoslovakian dissident turned president. Whether he muses on Gorbachev, his harassment by the police, or the ever-present danger of injustices being committed in service of noble words, Havel writes with clarity, wit, eloquence, a steadfast optimism, and remarkable courage.