Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of leadership success that hid cracks in its foundation. In a masterful appraisal of the company that claimed to "bring good things to life," William B. Cohan, one of Am...(展开全部)

The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we ta...(展开全部)

一部关于美国标志性企业令人震惊的崛起和难以想象的衰落的神奇历史 也许没有哪家公司能像标志性的通用电气公司一样，反映美国的智慧、创新和工业财富。通用电气公司拥有众多传奇式的领导人和几乎所有可以想象到的产品，它的成功为人们所崇拜，但却隐藏着根基上的裂痕。作为美国杰出的财经记者之一，威廉-D-科汉（William D. Cohan）在这部巨著中指出，通用电气的遗产既是了解二十世纪美国的典范，也是警世故事。 《Power Failure》介绍了通用电气公司 130 年的峥嵘历史，通过对公司黄金时代的关键人物（包括杰克-韦尔奇本人）进行罕见的采访，为读者带来了全新的分析。正如科汉所叙述的，韦尔奇以其传统为基础，使通用电气成为世界上有价值、受尊敬的公司，同时也掩盖了其弱点。科汉认为，他交给继任者杰弗里-伊梅尔特的，既是一个不可能达到的标准，也是一个更加麻烦的...(展开全部)

尼尔•弗格森，英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系劳伦斯•A•蒂施教授、牛津大学耶稣学院高级研究员，同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有畅销书《帝国》、《虚拟的历史》、《顶级金融家》、《纸与铁》、《金钱交易》、《战争的悲悯》、《巨人》、《货币崛起》、《罗斯柴尔德家族》，同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外，他还为第四频道撰写并制作了五部非常成功的电视纪录片：《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》、《货币崛起》和《文明》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。

Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards for territory and their successors spreading freedom across the world - at gun...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of Americas foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American powermilitary, economic, cultural, and political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and show...(展开全部)

In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world they built - and then lost - over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs grew in power to gain control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe stretching from Hungary to Spain,...(展开全部)

The lessons of this book can help us all find the opportunities that are just waiting to be discovered in the challenges we face every day. This book is about failure, but failure in a whole new light. It is about how to Fail To Succeed.

This sweeping history of the development of professional, institutionalized intelligence examines the implications of the fall of the state monopoly on espionage today and beyond. During the Cold War, only the alliances clustered around the two superpowers maintained viable intelligence endeavors, whereas a century ago, many states could aspire to be competitive at these dark a...(展开全部)