Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blu...(展开全部)

A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging of a play about Elizabeth I.

A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided.

白修德 Theodore H. White (1915-1986)，美国著名政治记者、历史学家和小说家。1915年出生于波士顿，1938年毕业于哈佛大学，师从费正清，之后受聘《时代周刊》担任驻东亚记者，报道了举世震惊的1942年河南大饥荒，1945年任中国分社社长。这一经历为他的首部著作《中 国的惊雷》（Thunder Out of China，与贾安娜合著）提供了素材。在短期担任《新共和》（The New Republic）杂志编辑期间，白修德编辑出版了《史迪威日记》（The Stilwell Papers）。1948年，他移居欧洲，驻欧洲记者的经历为1953年出版的《浴火重生》（Fire in the Ashes）提供了素材。同年，他回到美国先后担任《记者报》（The Reporter）和科利尔杂志（Collier’s Magazine）的国内记...(展开全部)

The greatest political story ever told—the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle The Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized—even created—modern political journalism. Granted intimate access to all parties involved, Theodore White crafted an almost mythic story of...(展开全部)

The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.

理查德·里夫斯（Richard Reeves），知名传记作家，美国南加州大学安嫩伯格传播学院教授，某报业联盟的专栏作家。他写过十多本书，大多是关于美国政治人物的传记，包括《肯尼迪：权力日记》、《尼克松：孤独的白宫主人》、《里根：想象的胜利》等。他凭借《肯尼迪：权力日记》在1993 年获得《时代周刊》年度非虚构类最佳图书奖、《华盛顿月刊》年度图书奖。1998 年，他因为在理解美国政治方面所做出的杰出贡献而获得由美国政治学协会颁发的“凯里· 麦克威廉斯奖”，同年获得美国国家报刊专栏作家协会颁发的终身成就奖。他的电视电影曾经荣获艾美奖、杜邦—哥伦比亚奖和皮迪博奖等奖项。

Richard Reeves's acclaimed account of a presidency solves the puzzle of Ronald Reagan -- a man of limited breadth and knowledge who was perhaps the most effective superpower president. Using the techniques he employed in his bestselling books on Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, Reeves takes us inside Reagan's Oval Office, where we find a charismatic, crafty, focused politician. A...(展开全部)

理查德·里夫斯（Richard Reeves），知名传记作家，美国南加州大学安嫩伯格传播学院教授，某报业联盟的专栏作家。他写过十多本书，大多是关于美国政治人物的传记，包括《肯尼迪：权力日记》、《尼克松：孤独的白宫主人》、《里根：想象的胜利》等。他凭借《肯尼迪：权力日记》在1993 年获得《时代周刊》年度非虚构类最佳图书奖、《华盛顿月刊》年度图书奖。1998 年，他因为在理解美国政治方面所做出的杰出贡献而获得由美国政治学协会颁发的“凯里· 麦克威廉斯奖”，同年获得美国国家报刊专栏作家协会颁发的终身成就奖。他的电视电影曾经荣获艾美奖、杜邦—哥伦比亚奖和皮迪博奖等奖项。

Who was Richard Nixon? The most amazing thing about the man was not what he did as president, but that he became president at all. Using thousands of new interviews and recently discovered or declassified documents and tapes, Richard Reeves's President Nixon offers a surprising portrait of a brilliant and contradictory man. Even as he dreamed of presidential greatness, Nixo...(展开全部)