Lech Walesa. A Way Of Hope

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: First Edition

Description: 325 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. This Captures, In Walesa's Plain And Muscular Prose, The Leading Personalities On Both Sides Of Solidarity's Enduring Struggle To Offer An Authoritative And Dramatic Memoir By The Man Who Has Written A Historic And Lasting Chapter In Contemporary World History.

Publishers Description: Walesa achieved fame in August 1980 when shipyard workers in Gdansk won the right to form a free trade union. In this long-awaited autobiography, he gives his unique insider perspective on Solidarity, the events leading to its formation and its fall. Concentrating on 1980-81, Walesa covers only briefly shipyard working conditions before 1980 and his internment after 1981. Mary Craig's Lech Walesa and His Poland ( LJ 9/15/87) places the events in context more fully. Despite all that he has endured, Walesa remains optimistic about the future. His insights make this a valuable book for most collections.--Marcia L. Sprules, Univ. of South Dakota Library.

ISBN: 0805006680