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A Way of Hope: An Autobiography
by
Lech Wałęsa
Polonya İşci Partisi önderi ve 1990-95 arası Polonya Cumhurbaşkanı olmuştur. 1983'ün Nobel Barış Ödülü sahibidir.Polonya'da sosyalist dönemin ilk bağımsız işçi örgütü Dayanışma Sendikası'na başkanlık etmiş, çok partili düzene geçişte önemli rol oynamıştır.
Hardcover
,
325 pages
Published
November 1987
by Henry Holt and Company
(first published 1987)
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Interesting, not great. The 1987 edition claims to be a translation from "Le Chemin d'espoir," and as far as I know, Walesa doesn't speak any more French than he does English, so who was his French ghostwriter? My edition doesn't say. His (or her) style is not inspiring. But I'm fascinated anyway. It is a distinctive voice, although something is clearly lost in the translation, and it takes me back to Poland--the cold wet winters, two-room flats full of children, coal smoke, trams and buses, hea
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I sometimes feel as if I belong to a past age, the age which is evoked in our national anthem, "Poland has not perished." The conditions in which this anthem saw the light of day are much the same as those we live under today, and the same can be siad of the hopes and values it expresses: courage, defiance, pride. But there will come a time, which I won't live to see, when narrow dPolish problems have been brushed aside, replaced by harmony and peace over our entire pl ...more
I sometimes feel as if I belong to a past age, the age which is evoked in our national anthem, "Poland has not perished." The conditions in which this anthem saw the light of day are much the same as those we live under today, and the same can be siad of the hopes and values it expresses: courage, defiance, pride. But there will come a time, which I won't live to see, when narrow dPolish problems have been brushed aside, replaced by harmony and peace over our entire pl ...more
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Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist. He co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.
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