Volume 54, Number 8 · May 10, 2007
Václav vs. Václav
By Václav Havel, Translated from the Czech and annotated by Paul Wilson
When Václav Havel's memoirs were published in Prague last May, under the title Please, Be Brief, one of the most eagerly anticipated aspects of his story was what he would say about his famously contentious relationship with Václav Klaus, the Czech prime minister under Havel who succeeded him as president of the Czech Republic. The tension between the two men during Havel's presidency became a defining feature of the first decade of the country's post-Communist existence.
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