The classic inside story of The New York Times , the most prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines.

盖伊·特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普·罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克·辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

盖伊·特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普·罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克·辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

Making News at The New York Times is the first in-depth portrait of the nation’s, if not the world's, premier newspaper in the digital age. It presents a lively chronicle of months spent in the newsroom observing daily conversations, meetings, and journalists at work. We see Page One meetings, articles developed for online and print from start to finish, the creation of ambitio...(展开全部)

You want a play to be challenging, ambitious, nuanced and complicated. You also want it to sell tickets. You want to make art, and you know you’re in show business. These are some of the balancing acts that the National Theatre, and this book, is about. This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spec...(展开全部)

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of...(展开全部)

One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shape...(展开全部)

One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens—the way thi...(展开全部)

For the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone---a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York through the past half-century. Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsi...(展开全部)