Private View by Vaclav Havel

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Private View by Vaclav Havel

Explore the Captivating History of the Roaring Twenties

Few decades capture the imagination like the 1920s. Like so many good stories, it got its start from a time of great turmoil and ended in a dramatic fashion. What happened between 1920 and 1929 has passed beyond history and has become legend.

The lessons of the 1920s are still relevant today. Many of the debates and issues of the era are still part of the national conversation. Economic policies, consumer behaviors and mass culture of the 1920s are reflected in our culture almost 100 years later.

By understanding the past, we can better prepare for the future and this new captivating history book is all about giving you that knowledge.

This book includes topics such as:
  • World War One and the 1920s
  • Fear of the Other
  • Old Causes Finishing Business
  • The Cost of Prohibition
  • A New World
  • African-Americans
  • Politics and Policies
  • How Did It All End?
  • And much, much more>
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Vaclav Havel was elected President of Czechoslovakia in 1989 and President of the Czech Republic in 1992. He is the author of many plays, essays, collections of letters, and memoirs, including Open Letters and Summer Meditations. Paul Wilson translated or cotranslated those books as well as Havel's Letters to Olga, Disturbing the Peace, and The Art of the Impossible. Peter Steiner is Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Deserts of Bohemia: Czech Fiction and Its Social Context and Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics, both from Cornell.

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ISBN 13 9780573122125
ISBN 10 0573122121
Title Private View
Author Vaclav Havel
Series Acting Edition S
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Samuel French Ltd
Year published 1991-06-01
Number of pages 26
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.