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The Art of the Impossible: Politics as - Hardcover, by Havel Vaclav - Good

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Type
Hardcover
ISBN
9780679451068

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679451064
ISBN-13
9780679451068
eBay Product ID (ePID)
467828

Product Key Features

Original Language
Czech
Book Title
Art of the Impossible : Politics As Morality in Practice
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Civilization, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, History & Theory, World / European, General, Civics & Citizenship
Genre
Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, History
Author
Václav Havel
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
8.7 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
LCCN
96-052262
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
943.7105/092
Synopsis
There is no 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 his country and the other postcommunist countries are learning democracy from scratch and are encountering obstacles from inside and out. He marvels at the single technology-driven civilization that envelops the globe, and the challenges this presents to multicultural realities. He invokes the duty of every person alive to prevent hatred and fear from derailing history ever again. He acknowledges "the advantage it is for doing a good job as president to know that I do not belong in the position and that I can at any moment, and justifiably, be removed from it."  And he reminds us that--contrary to all appearances--common sense, moderation, responsibility, good taste, feeling, instinct, and conscience are not alien to politics, but are the very key to its long-term success.
LC Classification Number
DB2238.H38A5 1997

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