"The Great American Mission" traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of Am...(展开全部)

What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called "a tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For ...(展开全部)

拉塞尔·柯克（1918-1994），美国著名政治理论家、道德家、历史学家、社会评论家和文学评论家。 二战期间，曾在美军服役，并与自由主义作家伊莎贝尔·帕特森（Isabel Paterson）建立了联系，后者在他早期政治思想的形成中发挥了重要作用。战后，进入苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学学习，并于1953年成为当年一位获得文学博士学位的美国人。 柯克以其保守主义思想而闻名美国，其思想甚至影响了尼克松、里根等美国总统的施政方向。1989年，柯克被里根总统授予“总统公民奖章”（仅次于“总统自由勋章”的平民奖）。

What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called "a tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For ...(展开全部)

eview His book lucidly explains how the end of the Cold War allowed the U.S.-dominated Western system to expand to the rest of the world. Ikenberry's account has an intuitive appeal. There's always more than enough chaos to argue that the world is in crisis . . . he writes thoughtfully about the challenge of integrating rising powers into global governance. . . . As a clear and...(展开全部)

约翰·伊肯伯里，生于1954年10月5日，芝加哥大学政治学博士（1985年），普林斯顿大学政治系及伍德罗·威尔逊学院艾尔波特·米尔班克讲座教授，在美国战略理论界、政策分析界、政府机构具有广泛的学术影响，被公认为继保罗·肯尼迪、约翰·加迪斯之后美国最富盛誉的战略学者。著有《自由秩序与帝国野心》、《大战胜利之后》、《国家权力与世界市场》（合著）、《国家理性：石油政治与美国政府能力》等。

约翰·伊肯伯里，生于1954年10月5日，芝加哥大学政治学博士（1985年），普林斯顿大学政治系及伍德罗·威尔逊学院艾尔波特·米尔班克讲座教授，在美国战略理论界、政策分析界、政府机构具有广泛的学术影响，被公认为继保罗·肯尼迪、约翰·加迪斯之后美国最富盛誉的战略学者。著有《自由秩序与帝国野心》、《大战胜利之后》、《国家权力与世界市场》（合著）、《国家理性：石油政治与美国政府能力》等。

eview His book lucidly explains how the end of the Cold War allowed the U.S.-dominated Western system to expand to the rest of the world. Ikenberry's account has an intuitive appeal. There's always more than enough chaos to argue that the world is in crisis . . . he writes thoughtfully about the challenge of integrating rising powers into global governance. . . . As a clear and...(展开全部)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...(展开全部)

Thirty years after its publication, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" was described by "The New York Times" as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning.... It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of tra...(展开全部)