In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly...(展开全部)

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to k...(展开全部)

诺曼·梅勒(1923— )是美国存在主义小说家。他在战后参与政治活动的同时从事文学创作，并接受了存在主义哲学。第一部作品《裸者与死者》是现实主义、自然主义与象征主义三结合的手法写成，具有明显的弗洛伊德学说和尼采思想的影响。此后较重要的作品有《白色黑人》、《一场美国梦》、《巴巴里海滨》、《我们为什么到越南》等。文集有《总统文件》、《食人生番与基督教》、《黑色大军》、《月亮上的火焰》等。但均未产生像《裸者与死者》、《白色黑人》那样的轰动效应。 《白色黑人》和《一场美国梦》是作家引起较大反响的作品。《白色黑人》是对“垮掉的一代”的嬉皮士心理进行分析，从存在主义角度论证了“垮掉的一代”产生的社会意义。从此，批评界将他视为存在主义在美国的代表人物。

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An Americ...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the author's distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised and new, recent examples of topics, issues, and event...(展开全部)

The New Class Society provides a fresh, lucid, and compelling exploration of U.S. class structure, social inequities, and the fading American Dream. This third edition extends the author's distributional model of class analysis and class-based power networks model developed in earlier editions. The narrative has been revised and new, recent examples of topics, issues, and event...(展开全部)

America as we know it—wealthy, powerful, assertive—is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, an America unable to exert its will, an America happy to be one power among many, an America in decline so that other nations might rise—all in the name of global fairness. To Obama, the hated “one percent” isn’t just wealthy Americas; it is America itself. ...(展开全部)