For thirty years, during the Stalinist rule of the communists in Czechoslovakia, Gene Deitch was the only American citizen continuously living there who was completely free of control by the regime! Love and cartoon films made him stay, and he saw, heard, and personally experienced the life in those sealed-off Czech lands; a long-time fly’s-eye view. No reporter, who flew in, contacted a few dissidents, and flew out again, could ever match his experience, insight, or personal adventures.

His book, For The Love Of Prague, is part love story, part history, part a record of national lunacy, and part terror. It is all true, with real names, real people, and real incidents. The New York Times, in a two-thirds page illustrated story, hailed it as “a spicy, funny memoir!”

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