In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations that started with the Communist takeover in 1949. It was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy, which changed the international balance of power for ever. With China onside Nixon might get out of Vietnam; US knowhow could ...(展开全部)

In 1972 Nixon amazed the world by going to China. The first trip ever by a US President was an immense gamble but a brilliant stroke of policy. It marked the end of deep freeze in Sino-American relations and changed the international balance of power for ever. This turning point in history was enacted by extraordinary players: Nixon himself, red-baiter, shrewd statesman and dis...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as the type that loses the girl) and in a fina...(展开全部)

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索尔·贝娄（Saul Bellow，1915－2005），美国作家。生于加拿大魁北克省的拉辛，在蒙特利尔度过童年。1924年，举家迁至美国芝加哥。1933年，贝娄考入芝加哥大学。两年后，转入西北大学，于1937年毕业，并获得社会学和人类学学士学位。同年，赴威斯康星大学攻读硕士学位。之后长期在大学执教。 出版于1953年的《奥吉·马奇历险记》使贝娄一举成名，奠定了他的文学地位。其后，他陆续出版《雨王亨德森》（1959）、《赫索格》（1964）、《赛姆勒先生的行星》（1970）、《洪堡的礼物）（1975）、《系主任的十二月》（1982）等。这些作品袒露了中产阶级知识分子的精神苦闷，从侧面反映了美国当代“丰裕社会”的精神危机。此外，贝娄还出版过诸多中短篇小说集、剧本，以及游记。 在其创作生涯中，贝娄集学者与作家于一身，他在创作上继承了欧洲现实主义文学的某些...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as the type that loses the girl) and in a fina...(展开全部)

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)

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)

[英]马修·雷斯托尔 美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学拉丁美洲史和人类学教授。 马修·雷斯托尔是一位民族史学家，也是一位研究美洲的征服、殖民和非洲移民的学者，曾任美国民族史学会主席。 代表作有《西班牙征服的七个神话》《玛雅世界》等。

[英]马修·雷斯托尔 美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学拉丁美洲史和人类学教授。 马修·雷斯托尔是一位民族史学家，也是一位研究美洲的征服、殖民和非洲移民的学者，曾任美国民族史学会主席。 代表作有《西班牙征服的七个神话》《玛雅世界》等。