From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns ...(展开全部)

Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president at all. Using thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes, Richard Reeves's President Nixon offers a surprising portrait of a brilliant and contradictory man. Even as he dreamed of presidential greatness, Nixo...(展开全部)

理查德·里夫斯（Richard Reeves），知名传记作家，美国南加州大学安嫩伯格传播学院教授，某报业联盟的专栏作家。他写过十多本书，大多是关于美国政治人物的传记，包括《肯尼迪：权力日记》、《尼克松：孤独的白宫主人》、《里根：想象的胜利》等。他凭借《肯尼迪：权力日记》在1993 年获得《时代周刊》年度非虚构类最佳图书奖、《华盛顿月刊》年度图书奖。1998 年，他因为在理解美国政治方面所做出的杰出贡献而获得由美国政治学协会颁发的“凯里· 麦克威廉斯奖”，同年获得美国国家报刊专栏作家协会颁发的终身成就奖。他的电视电影曾经荣获艾美奖、杜邦—哥伦比亚奖和皮迪博奖等奖项。

A riveting history--the first full account--of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in its wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today. Drawing on recently declassified documents, unheard White House tapes, and investigative re...(展开全部)

Leadership: The Ultimate Guide Few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years -- from Nixon to Clinton and Watergate to Whitewater -- than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four presidents, both Republican and Democrat, he offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of their struggles to exercise power and dr...(展开全部)

From Nixon to Clinton， Watergate to Whitewater， few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four presidents， both Republican and Democrat， he offers a vivid， behind-the-scenes account of their struggles to exercise power and draws from them key lessons for leaders of...(展开全部)