The first officer since George Washington to become a four-star general in the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant was a man who managed to end the Civil War on a note of grace, and was the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. The son of an Ohio tanner, he has long been remembered as a brilliant general b...(展开全部)

In this concise, vivid, and brilliantly readable biography, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda sheds new light on the life of Ulysses S. Grant -- a man who is consistently ranked as one of the greatest American generals and as one of our weaker presidents. The son of a tanner in Ohio, soft-spoken, taciturn, given to drink, easily hurt and embarrassed, Ulysses S. G...(展开全部)

作者 | 罗纳德·C. 怀特（Ronald C. White） 在普林斯顿大学获得博士学位。曾在数百所大学和其他组织，以及葛底斯堡和白宫发表过关于林肯的演讲。他是亨廷顿图书馆的研究员，也是华盛顿特区三一论坛的高级研究员。他和夫人辛西娅目前居住在加利福尼亚州的拉肯纳达（La Cañada）。 . 译者 | 刘洋 清华大学人文学院历史系博士研究生，研究方向为近代中外关系史、中国近代思想史。

From the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander-turned-commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twen...(展开全部)

From the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidents In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leaders.” But the battlefield commander-turned-commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twen...(展开全部)

作者 | 罗纳德·C. 怀特（Ronald C. White） 在普林斯顿大学获得博士学位。曾在数百所大学和其他组织，以及葛底斯堡和白宫发表过关于林肯的演讲。他是亨廷顿图书馆的研究员，也是华盛顿特区三一论坛的高级研究员。他和夫人辛西娅目前居住在加利福尼亚州的拉肯纳达（La Cañada）。 . 译者 | 刘洋 清华大学人文学院历史系博士研究生，研究方向为近代中外关系史、中国近代思想史。

"A great story--how modernism brought down the regime of censorship--told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life. There is a fresh detail on nearly every page."--Louis Menand, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Metaphysical Club For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel...(展开全部)

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel dea ls with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. "Ulysses" has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.In a famous 1933 co...(展开全部)

Leopold Bloom er ingen helt og især ingen romantisk helt. Vi følger ham, mens han går op til sin kone og giver hende morgenmad på sengen; Bloom er en tøffelhelt. Så beskrives han, i detaljer, i et nødvendigt ærinde til hjertehuset længst nede i haven. Denne mand er vor tids Ulysses (Odusseus). Joyce gav sin roman navn efter Homers helt, krigeren fra Troja, som krydser sig frem ...(展开全部)

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel dea ls with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. "Ulysses" has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable.In a famous 1933 co...(展开全部)