On August 13, 1980 Lech Wałęsa was still an unknown electrician. Seventeen days later he was the leader of an anti-communist movement, which soon swelled to include 10 million people. Over the course of 17 days, he had become world-famous, a living legend. As long as Wałęsa was just a union representative and icon of the August strikes, he was forgiven his lack of education, churlish vocabulary, a...