Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

Vaclav Havel. Vintage Books USA, $15.95 (432pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73811-4

A stirring collection of political essays, letters, speeches, autobiographical sketches, interviews and musings, mostly from the years that Havel, now Czechoslovakia's president, spent as his nation's leading dissident. (June)

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