POLISH President LECH WALESA \"A Way of Hope\" (1987) SIGNED 1st Edition w/ Letter
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POLISH President LECH WALESA \"A Way of Hope\" (1987) SIGNED 1st Edition w/ Letter:
$300.00
Henry Holt, New York, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in archival protective cover. An autobiography of Lech Walesa and the history of the Solidarity movement in Poland. 325 pp., photos. SIGNED on the title page by Lech Walesa. Loosely laid in is a letter from President Walesa\'s office that accompanied the return of the signed book.Lech Wałęsa, born 29 September 1943) is a retired Polish politician and labor activist. He co-founded and headed 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. Wałęsa was an electrician by trade. When working at Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk Shipyard), he became a trade union activist, for which he was persecuted by the Communist authorities, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980 he was instrumental in political negotiations that led to the ground-breaking Gdańsk Agreement between striking workers and the government. He became a co-founder of the Solidarity trade union movement. After martial law was imposed in Poland and Solidarity was outlawed, Wałęsa was arrested again. Upon his release from custody he continued his activism and was prominent in the establishment of the 1989 Round Table Agreement that led to semi-free parliamentary elections in June 1989, and to a Solidarity-led government. In the Polish general election of 1990, Wałęsa successfully ran for the newly re-established office of President of Poland. He presided over Poland\'s transition from communism to a post-communist state.
POLISH President LECH WALESA \"A Way of Hope\" (1987) SIGNED 1st Edition w/ Letter:
$300.00