Praise for Korea: The First War We Lost "This.fast-moving study is the first to be written by a professional army historian.superb.capably challenges many of the traditional interpretations." -Library Journal "The best overview of the Korean conflict since Fehrenbach's This Kind of War...a balanced, perceptive accounting..." -Kirkus Review "A desirable acquisition for most mili...(展开全部)

Book Description From one of the country's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment and the author of the classic Gideon's Trumpet, an eloquent essay on the importance of freedom of expression. More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little ...(展开全部)

More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. This extraordinary freedom results not from America’s culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First...(展开全部)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gideon's Trumpet follows the progress of the 1960 libel suit that pitted The New York Times against a Montgomery, Alabama, city official, and whose settlement in the Supreme Court redefined what newspapers, and ordinary citizens, can print or say.

关于作者： 安东尼•刘易斯（Anthony Lewis），1927年3月生于纽约，毕业于哈佛学院。曾任《纽约时报》周日版编辑（1948-1952）、驻华盛顿司法事务报道记者（1955-1964）、伦敦记者站主任（1965-1972）、专栏作者（1969-2001），目前是《纽约书评》专栏作者。1955年、1963年两度获普利策奖。刘易斯曾在哈佛大学执教（1974-1989），并自1982年起，担任哥伦比亚大学“詹姆斯•麦迪逊讲席”教授，讲授第一修正案与新闻自由。著有《吉迪恩的号角》（Gideon’s Trumpet）、《十年人物：第二次美国革命》（Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution）、《言论的边界：美国宪法第一修正案简史》（Freedom for the Thought that ...(展开全部)

About this book The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The c...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·古尔登（Joseph Goulden），美国知名政治作家，曾长期从事情报分析工作，后投身新闻业，任《费城问讯报》华盛顿分社主管。古尔登在《朝鲜战争》前一部著作《黄金时代：1945-1950》（The Best Years：1945-1950）中涵盖了从美国对日战争胜利（V-J Days）到朝鲜战争的历史，被美国最权威的文化机构“每月一书俱乐部”选为力荐读物。另一著作《超级律师》（The Superlawyers）登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜达24周之久。 ★译者简介： 于滨，美国斯坦福大学博士，中国社会科学院研究生院硕士，北京外国语大学学士。现任美国文博大学政治系教授 、美国陆军战争学院访问学者，兼上海美国学会资深研究员、北京《外交观察》季刊策划。有中、英文学术著作6本，论文百余篇。 谈锋，毕业于北京大学、中国社会科学院研究生院，曾在美国斯坦...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·古尔登（Joseph Goulden），美国知名政治作家，曾长期从事情报分析工作，后投身新闻业，任《费城问讯报》华盛顿分社主管。古尔登在《朝鲜战争》前一部著作《黄金时代：1945-1950》（The Best Years：1945-1950）中涵盖了从美国对日战争胜利（V-J Days）到朝鲜战争的历史，被美国最权威的文化机构“每月一书俱乐部”选为力荐读物。另一著作《超级律师》（The Superlawyers）登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜达24周之久。 ★译者简介： 于滨，美国斯坦福大学博士，中国社会科学院研究生院硕士，北京外国语大学学士。现任美国文博大学政治系教授 、美国陆军战争学院访问学者，兼上海美国学会资深研究员、北京《外交观察》季刊策划。有中、英文学术著作6本，论文百余篇。 谈锋，毕业于北京大学、中国社会科学院研究生院，曾在美国斯坦...(展开全部)

When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character. Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass, but as Harold Bloo...(展开全部)

He was known as Druss. The Deathwalker. Though the blood of merciless butchers coursed through his veins, he had found a fragile peace through his love for beautiful, mystical Rowena. Then came the day when Druss returned to their village and found everyone dead--massacred by slavers who had stolen the women to sell for gold. Rowena was among the missing. Armed with only his p...(展开全部)