Pink Tanks and Velvet Hangovers
by Douglas Lytle
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Lytle's travel book takes place in the months following the fall of the repressive Socialist government in Czechoslovakia. Lytle documents the first shaky steps to democracy and capitalism. He writes of the awkwardness and slights of a country in transition, the sights, smells, and incredible beauty he witnesses, and of a people and a government on the cusp of massive change.