Velvet President. Matt Welch.
by Welch, Matt; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 32Global Issues. Publisher: Reason, 2003ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Anti-communist movements -- History | Authors -- Czech | Czech Republic -- Economic conditions | Czech Republic -- Politics and government | Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1945-1992 | Dissenters | Essayists | Havel | Klaus, Vaclav | Orwell GeorgeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Vaclav Havel, the 66-year-old former Czech president who was term-limited out of office on February 2 [2003], built his reputation in the 1970s by being to eyewitness fact what George Orwell was to dystopian fiction. In other words, he used common sense to deconstruct rhetorical falsehoods, pulling apart the suffocating mesh of collectivist lies one carefully observed thread at a time." (REASON) This article highlights the political career of former Czech president Vaclav Havel.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Velvet President, May 3, 2003; pp. 42-50.
"Vaclav Havel, the 66-year-old former Czech president who was term-limited out of office on February 2 [2003], built his reputation in the 1970s by being to eyewitness fact what George Orwell was to dystopian fiction. In other words, he used common sense to deconstruct rhetorical falsehoods, pulling apart the suffocating mesh of collectivist lies one carefully observed thread at a time." (REASON) This article highlights the political career of former Czech president Vaclav Havel.
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