Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power [Deckle Edge] [精装]

作者: Jon Meacham 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2012-11

版次: 1

ISBN: 9781400067664

定价: 302.00

装帧: 精装

开本: 16开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 759页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>历史

3人买过

　　NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

  The New York Times Book Review ? The Washington Post ?Entertainment Weekly ? The Seattle Times ? St. LouisPost-Dispatch

  In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorof American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life anextraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: TheArt of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, agreat and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of hisera. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s geniuswas that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Suchis the art of power.　　

  Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understandingof power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshalideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate aboutmany things—women, his family, books, science, architecture,gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved Americamost, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition,to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success ofpopular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’sworld as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jeffersonfound the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisandivision, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing onarchives in the United States, England, and France, as well asunpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presentsJefferson as the most successful political leader of the earlyrepublic, and perhaps in all of American history.

  The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the LouisianaPurchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling ofthe West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and thegenius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, ofdiscovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From thewriting of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners inParis and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings inthe boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and NewYork to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicatedlife at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation inVirginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jeffersonwas central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a manof appetite, sensuality, and passion.

  The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led hisnation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amideconomic change and external threats, and also because he embodiesan eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation toachieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.

  Advance praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power　　

  “Jon Meacham resolves the bundle of contradictions that wasThomas Jefferson by probing his love of progress and thirst forpower. This is a thrilling and affecting portrait of our firstphilosopher-politician.”—Stacy Schiff　　

  “This terrific book allows us to see the political genius ofThomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In theseendlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitalitythat it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris KearnsGoodwin 　　Jon Meacham is the author, most recently, ofThomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, a #1 New YorkTimes bestseller that has been named one of the best books ofthe year by The New York Times Book Review, TheWashington Post, Entertainment Weekly, The SeattleTimes, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Meacham receivedthe Pulitzer Prize for American Lion, his bestselling 2008biography of Andrew Jackson. He is also the author of the NewYork Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston andAmerican Gospel. Executive editor and executive vicepresident of Random House, Meacham is a contributing editor toTime magazine, a former editor of Newsweek, and haswritten for The New York Times and The WashingtonPost, among other publications. He is a regular contributor onMeet the Press, Morning Joe, and Charlie Rose.A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, Meacham serves onthe boards of the New-York Historical Society, the ChurchillCentre, and The McCallie School. He is a former trustee and regentof Sewanee: The University of the South, and has served on thevestries of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and Trinity Wall Streetchurch in New York City. Born in Chattanooga in 1969, Meacham waseducated at The McCallie School and at Sewanee: The University ofthe South, where he was salutatorian and Phi Beta Kappa. He beganhis career as a reporter at The Chattanooga Times. He andhis wife live with their three children in Nashville and inSewanee. A NOTE ON THE TEXT

PROLOGUE. The World's Best Hope

PART 1 THE SCION ~ BEGINNINGS TO SPRING 1774

ONE - A Fortunate Son

Two ~ What Fixed the Destinies of My Life

THREE. Roots of Revolution

FouR- Temptations and Trials

FIvE. A World of Desire and Denial

PART 2  I THE REVOLUTIONARY.

SPRING 1774 TO SUMMER 1776

six. Like a Shock of Electricity

sEvEN   There Is No Peace

tlGHT, The Famous Mr. Jefferson

NINE  The Course of Human Events

TEN, The Pull of Duty

PART 3   REFORMER AND GOVERNOR LATE 1776 TO 1782

ELEVEN  An Agenda for Liberty

TWELVE-A Troublesome Office

rHRTEEN. Redcoats at Monticello

FOURTEEN. To Burn on Through Death

……
内容简介:
　　NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

  The New York Times Book Review ? The Washington Post ?Entertainment Weekly ? The Seattle Times ? St. LouisPost-Dispatch

  In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorof American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life anextraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: TheArt of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, agreat and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of hisera. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s geniuswas that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Suchis the art of power.　　

  Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understandingof power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshalideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate aboutmany things—women, his family, books, science, architecture,gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved Americamost, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition,to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success ofpopular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’sworld as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jeffersonfound the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisandivision, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing onarchives in the United States, England, and France, as well asunpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presentsJefferson as the most successful political leader of the earlyrepublic, and perhaps in all of American history.

  The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the LouisianaPurchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling ofthe West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and thegenius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, ofdiscovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From thewriting of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners inParis and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings inthe boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and NewYork to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicatedlife at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation inVirginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jeffersonwas central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a manof appetite, sensuality, and passion.

  The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led hisnation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amideconomic change and external threats, and also because he embodiesan eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation toachieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.

  Advance praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power　　

  “Jon Meacham resolves the bundle of contradictions that wasThomas Jefferson by probing his love of progress and thirst forpower. This is a thrilling and affecting portrait of our firstphilosopher-politician.”—Stacy Schiff　　

  “This terrific book allows us to see the political genius ofThomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In theseendlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitalitythat it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris KearnsGoodwin
作者简介:
　　Jon Meacham is the author, most recently, ofThomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, a #1 New YorkTimes bestseller that has been named one of the best books ofthe year by The New York Times Book Review, TheWashington Post, Entertainment Weekly, The SeattleTimes, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Meacham receivedthe Pulitzer Prize for American Lion, his bestselling 2008biography of Andrew Jackson. He is also the author of the NewYork Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston andAmerican Gospel. Executive editor and executive vicepresident of Random House, Meacham is a contributing editor toTime magazine, a former editor of Newsweek, and haswritten for The New York Times and The WashingtonPost, among other publications. He is a regular contributor onMeet the Press, Morning Joe, and Charlie Rose.A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, Meacham serves onthe boards of the New-York Historical Society, the ChurchillCentre, and The McCallie School. He is a former trustee and regentof Sewanee: The University of the South, and has served on thevestries of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and Trinity Wall Streetchurch in New York City. Born in Chattanooga in 1969, Meacham waseducated at The McCallie School and at Sewanee: The University ofthe South, where he was salutatorian and Phi Beta Kappa. He beganhis career as a reporter at The Chattanooga Times. He andhis wife live with their three children in Nashville and inSewanee.
目录:
A NOTE ON THE TEXT

PROLOGUE. The World's Best Hope

PART 1 THE SCION ~ BEGINNINGS TO SPRING 1774

ONE - A Fortunate Son

Two ~ What Fixed the Destinies of My Life

THREE. Roots of Revolution

FouR- Temptations and Trials

FIvE. A World of Desire and Denial

PART 2  I THE REVOLUTIONARY.

SPRING 1774 TO SUMMER 1776

six. Like a Shock of Electricity

sEvEN   There Is No Peace

tlGHT, The Famous Mr. Jefferson

NINE  The Course of Human Events

TEN, The Pull of Duty

PART 3   REFORMER AND GOVERNOR LATE 1776 TO 1782

ELEVEN  An Agenda for Liberty

TWELVE-A Troublesome Office

rHRTEEN. Redcoats at Monticello

FOURTEEN. To Burn on Through Death

……

查看详情

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power [Deckle Edge] [精装]

内容简介:

作者简介:

目录: