{"product_id":"2026100007593-secondhand-masaryk","title":"Masaryk","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew figures in twentieth-century European history command the reverence and complexity of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and founding father of Czechoslovakia — and Edward Polson Newman's biography stands as a compelling portrait of this remarkable man. Set against the turbulent backdrop of a continent torn apart by empire, nationalism, and war, the work chronicles Masaryk's extraordinary journey from humble origins in Moravia to the presidency of a newly forged democratic republic, illuminating the fierce intellectual and moral convictions that drove him. With a preface by the distinguished diplomat and author Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart — who knew the region and its leaders intimately — the volume carries an authority that transcends the merely academic.\n\nNewman writes with the clarity and purpose of a journalist who understands that political biography is ultimately the biography of ideas, and Masaryk presents its subject as both a product of his age and a force determined to reshape it. The book argues that Masaryk's legacy is inseparable from the broader democratic experiment in Central Europe, a vision as fragile as it was inspired. For readers seeking to understand how one man's philosophical courage helped birth a nation, this account leaves a quietly unsettling question: what becomes of that vision when the man himself is gone?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49131002986715,"sku":"2026100007593-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f0d75f41-4753-4765-bbcf-8352fc026cf5.png?v=1786594350","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007593-secondhand-masaryk","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}