The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to post-war chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marsh...(展开全部)

The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to post-war chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marsh...(展开全部)

A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest: Averell Harriman, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, George Kenan, Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, John McCloy, and Ambassador to the Soviet Union Charles Bohlen.

珍妮·厄格洛 英国传记作家、历史学家、评论家和资深出版人，曾任 Chatto & Windus主编。曾撰写伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔（Elizabeth Gaskell），威廉·霍加斯（William Hogarth），托马斯·贝威克（Thomas Bewick）和爱德华·李尔（Edward Lear）的传记，备受好评。The Lunar Men： The Friends Who Made The Future是其代表作，以优美流畅的文笔讲述了工业革命时期，月光社成员如何以自己致力终身的兴趣和事业在历史中留下其轨迹，引导着英国工业化社会发展。

珍妮·厄格洛 英国传记作家、历史学家、评论家和资深出版人，曾任 Chatto & Windus主编。曾撰写伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔（Elizabeth Gaskell），威廉·霍加斯（William Hogarth），托马斯·贝威克（Thomas Bewick）和爱德华·李尔（Edward Lear）的传记，备受好评。The Lunar Men： The Friends Who Made The Future是其代表作，以优美流畅的文笔讲述了工业革命时期，月光社成员如何以自己致力终身的兴趣和事业在历史中留下其轨迹，引导着英国工业化社会发展。

In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah ...(展开全部)

罗伯特·卡根，美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员，多次被《外交政策》杂志评为：“全球顶级百位思想家”。

What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United...(展开全部)

A revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR.