Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas. In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smi...(展开全部)

In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly...(展开全部)

Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to k...(展开全部)

诺曼·梅勒(1923— )是美国存在主义小说家。他在战后参与政治活动的同时从事文学创作，并接受了存在主义哲学。第一部作品《裸者与死者》是现实主义、自然主义与象征主义三结合的手法写成，具有明显的弗洛伊德学说和尼采思想的影响。此后较重要的作品有《白色黑人》、《一场美国梦》、《巴巴里海滨》、《我们为什么到越南》等。文集有《总统文件》、《食人生番与基督教》、《黑色大军》、《月亮上的火焰》等。但均未产生像《裸者与死者》、《白色黑人》那样的轰动效应。 《白色黑人》和《一场美国梦》是作家引起较大反响的作品。《白色黑人》是对“垮掉的一代”的嬉皮士心理进行分析，从存在主义角度论证了“垮掉的一代”产生的社会意义。从此，批评界将他视为存在主义在美国的代表人物。

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An Americ...(展开全部)

America as we know it—wealthy, powerful, assertive—is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, an America unable to exert its will, an America happy to be one power among many, an America in decline so that other nations might rise—all in the name of global fairness. To Obama, the hated “one percent” isn’t just wealthy Americas; it is America itself. ...(展开全部)

迪内希•德•索萨Dinesh D’Souza印裔美国人，纽约国王学院(King's College in New York City) 院长。高中时从印度以交换学生的身份来到美国，后来就读于常春藤大学达特茅斯，在大学期前参与编写学生保守杂志，毕业后不久，迪内希以移民 的身份加入里根政府，做政策研究员，之后，迪内希就职于斯坦福大学胡佛研究所，并出版数本纽约时报畅销书，其中包括《种族歧视的终结》、《里根》、《美国的伟大》、《基督教的伟大》、《来生》、《给年轻保守派的书信》。2010年，迪内希受邀担任纽约国王学院的院长。 过去多年来，迪内希的写作和辩论主要在政治理念和政策方面，在2008年大选期间，保守派的迪内希并没有去做反自由派奥巴马的先锋，他的主要精力集中在与无神论们的辩论之中。奥巴马当选上任后，推出了一系列的国内政策和外交政策，对内大搞财富再分配、三...(展开全部)

Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.