The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin,...(展开全部)

A chilling and unflinching portrait of one of the most fearsome figures in world politics. In 1999, the “Family” surrounding Boris Yeltsin went looking for a successor to the ailing and increasingly unpopular president. Vladimir Putin, with very little governmental or administrative experience—he’d been deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and briefly, director of the secret police...(展开全部)

Former New York Times Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Vladimir Putin's path for many years, and gives us the fullest, most absorbing account we have of his rise to power. This gripping narrative elucidates a cool and calculating man with enormous ambition and few scruples. We see Putin, a former KGB agent, come to office in 2000 as a reformer, cutting taxes, e...(展开全部)

All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted -- if not controlled -- by the...(展开全部)

All the Kremlin's Men is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based on an unprecedented series of interviews with Vladimir Putin's inner circle, this book presents a radically different view of power and politics in Russia. The image of Putin as a strongman is dissolved. In its place is a weary figurehead buffeted--if not controlled--by the men...(展开全部)

我很喜欢普鲁斯特，但我更喜欢穆齐尔。——玛格丽特•杜拉斯 尼采使哲学与小说接近，穆齐尔使小说与哲学接近。——米兰•昆德拉 罗伯特•穆齐尔（1880-1942），奥地利作家，二十世纪最重要的德语文学大师之一，与卡夫卡、普鲁斯特、乔伊斯并列为二十世纪最重要的伟大作家。代表作有长篇小说《没有个性的人》（未完成）、《学生托乐思的迷惘》，短篇小说集《三个女人》，散文集《在世遗作》等。 穆齐尔早年大学工科毕业，后又获得哲学博士学位，是一位不折不扣的具有高度人文和科学素养的作家。作为现代的语文学的拓荒者，他的创作在内容上富于深刻的哲思和冷静的科学精神，在形式上则表现为不拘一格地突破传统和大胆尝试。