In this remarkable autobiography, Ronald Reagan presents a definitive personal account of his historic presidency. With uncompromising candor, modesty, and wit, he tells the story of his life—public and private—and reveals the events that shaped his reluctant candidacy and the decision-making process that led to his first nomination; the unseen dangers of Gorbachev’s first visi...(展开全部)

Ronald Reagan’s autobiography is a work of major historical importance. Here, in his own words, is the story of his life—public and private—told in a book both frank and compellingly readable. Few presidents have accomplished more, or been so effective in changing the direction of government in ways that are both fundamental and lasting, than Ronald Reagan. Certainly no presid...(展开全部)

托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Clayton Wolfe, 1900—1938） 20世纪美国文学最重要的小说家之一。1900年生于北卡罗莱纳州阿什维尔，毕业于北卡罗莱纳州大学，在哈佛大学获得剧本写作硕士学位，后在纽约大学任教。他创作于大萧条时期的作品描述了美国文化的变化和多样。1938年沃尔夫去世后，威廉·福克纳将他列为他们那一代最好的作家，而将自己列在了沃尔夫的后面。“垮掉派”作家杰克·凯鲁亚克也将沃尔夫视为自己的文学偶像。 其代表作有四部自传体长篇小说：《天使，望故乡》（Look Homeward，Angel，1929）、《时间和河流》（Of Time and the River，1935）、《蛛网和岩石》（The Web and the Rock，1939）和《你再也不能回家乡了》（You can’t Go Home Again，1940）。...(展开全部)

A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each. Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture...(展开全部)

Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Trollope was born in 1815, the son of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father. Poor, ill-dressed, awk...(展开全部)

In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska; meeting her lifelong love; her decision to enter politics; the importance of faith and family; and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom's-eye view ...(展开全部)

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life fro...(展开全部)

Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that ...(展开全部)