Article: VACLAV HAVEL: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts.(Review)

VACLAV HAVEL: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts

by John Keane Basic Books, $27.50

MOHANDAS GANDHI--WHAT A jerk! Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas Merton, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Schweitzer: a rogue's gallery of egocentric charlatans. People have said as much about everyone on that list, and now comes John Keane, a professor of politics at Westminster University in England, to add Vaclav Havel to the hall of shame. You may foolishly view Havel as a playwright, spirited dissident, and democratic hero to a peace-loving nation. Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts reveals the shocking underside. Havel ...

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