From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders–Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilt...(展开全部)

From the prizewinning author of the best-selling Founding Brothers and American Sphinx , a masterly and highly ironic examination of the founding years of our country. The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated and determined group of men undertook a bold experiment in political ideals. It was a ...(展开全部)

National Bestseller Acclaimed historian Joseph J. Ellis brings his unparalleled talents to this riveting account of the early years of the Republic. The last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the most politically creative era in American history, when a dedicated group of men undertook a bold experiment in political ideals. It was a time of both triumphs and tragedie...(展开全部)

戈登·S. 伍德，生于1933年，当代美国历史学家，1964年获得哈佛大学史学博士学位，后先后任教于哈佛大学、威廉与玛丽学院、密歇根大学、布朗大学、剑桥大学等高校，并长期担任《纽约书评》和《新共和》的撰稿人。他的代表作《美利坚共和国的缔造》于1970年获得美国史学界最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。1993年，伍德获得普利策奖。

戈登·S. 伍德，生于1933年，当代美国历史学家，1964年获得哈佛大学史学博士学位，后先后任教于哈佛大学、威廉与玛丽学院、密歇根大学、布朗大学、剑桥大学等高校，并长期担任《纽约书评》和《新共和》的撰稿人。他的代表作《美利坚共和国的缔造》于1970年获得美国史学界最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。1993年，伍德获得普利策奖。

戈登·S. 伍德，生于1933年，当代美国历史学家，1964年获得哈佛大学史学博士学位，后先后任教于哈佛大学、威廉与玛丽学院、密歇根大学、布朗大学、剑桥大学等高校，并长期担任《纽约书评》和《新共和》的撰稿人。他的代表作《美利坚共和国的缔造》于1970年获得美国史学界最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。1993年，伍德获得普利策奖。

Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the War on Terror are only symptoms of deeper pathologies. Ackerman points to a series of developments that have previously been treated independently of one another -...(展开全部)

埃里克·纳尔逊（Eric Nelson）哈佛大学政府学院罗伯特·M.贝伦讲席教授。研究领域集中于欧美现代早期政治思想史及其在当代政治理论中的应用，代表作有《希伯来共和国：欧洲政治思想的转变及其犹太根源》（The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, 2010）；《共和思想中的希腊传统》（The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, 2004）。

Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our "founding fathers" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal powe...(展开全部)

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillio...(展开全部)