A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart. Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal pa...(展开全部)

All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, using the ...(展开全部)

All who lived in the early 1950s remember the fear of polio and the elation felt when a successful vaccine was found. Now David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Here is a remarkable portrait of America in the early 1950s, ...(展开全部)

艾米•戈德斯坦（Amy Goldstein） 担任《华盛顿邮报》特约撰稿人超过30年，获得过众多奖项，包括2002年的普利策新闻奖。她是首位独立赢得《金融时报》-麦肯锡最佳商业图书奖的女作家，也曾是哈佛大学尼曼新闻基金会和拉德克里夫高等研究所的研究员。

艾米•戈德斯坦（Amy Goldstein） 担任《华盛顿邮报》特约撰稿人超过30年，获得过众多奖项，包括2002年的普利策新闻奖。她是首位独立赢得《金融时报》-麦肯锡最佳商业图书奖的女作家，也曾是哈佛大学尼曼新闻基金会和拉德克里夫高等研究所的研究员。

A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers r...(展开全部)

A Washington Post reporter’s intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin—Paul Ryan’s hometown—and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills—but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers r...(展开全部)

This "bold...extraordinary...blockbuster..." (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex Haley was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his...(展开全部)

琳达·德·莱尔，毕业于牛津大学，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，都铎王朝和斯图亚特王朝领域的知名作者，因其扎实严谨的历史研究和强大的叙事写作能力备受赞誉。 作品《查理一世：内战之火与英国王权的变革，1625—1649》（White King: The Tragedy of Ch arles I）荣获2018年历史作家协会（Historical Writers Association）非虚构写作皇冠奖（Non-fiction Crown）。琳达·德·莱尔曾是《旁观者》、《乡村生活》、《卫报》和《星期日和每日快报》 的专栏作家，也为《每日邮报》、《新政治家》和《星期日电讯报》撰稿。