约翰·托兰（John Toland） 美国著名作家、历史学家。1912年出生于威斯康星州，经历过第二次世界大战。其主要作品有《希特勒传》《不是耻辱》《最后一百天》《日本帝国消亡史》《阿登之战》等。曾凭借《日本帝国消亡史》获得1971年普利策新闻奖。 托兰认为，好的历史著作就是“活 的历史”。他的写作信条是“不应当以自己的观点来讲述，而是像一出戏那样，让实际上发生过的事情重演，这才是所谓活的历史。”托兰的作品摒弃了传统史学著作的生涩与枯燥，代之以丰富的细节描写和对话，使读者犹如身临其境。

From the author of Queen of Fashion–a glittering look at fin-de-siècle Paris through the three women who inspired Proust’s supreme fictional character, the Duchesse de Guermantes. The three superstars of turn-of-the-century Parisian high society were Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse ...(展开全部)

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both. I...(展开全部)