The American Presidency

图书标准信息

• 作者 Alan Brinkley 著
• 出版社 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• 出版时间 2003-12
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780618382736
• 定价 167.70元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 592页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

Themostup-to-date,incisive,andaccessiblereferenceontheAmericanpresidency,withessaysbythenation'sleadinghistorians.Anindispensableresourceforthecuriousreaderandtheserioushistorianalike,TheAmericanPresidencyshowcasessomeofthemostprovocativeinterpretivehistorybeingwrittentoday.Thisrichnarrativehistoryshedslightonthehubris,struggles,andbrillianceofournation'sleaders.Couplingvividwritingwithunparalleledscholarship,theseinsightfulessaysfromwell-knownhistorianscovereverypresidencyfromthefirstthroughtheforty-third.

【作者简介】

AlanBrinkleyhasbeenaprofessorofAmericanhistoryatColumbiaUniversitysince1991.Duringthepastacademicyear,hehasheldthepositionofHarmsworthProfessorofAmericanHistoryatOxfordUniversity.Heistheauthorof,amongotherbooks,VoicesofProtest:HueyLong,FatherCoughlin,andTheGreatDepression,whichwontheAmericanBookAwardforhistory.BrinkleycurrentlyresidesinNewYork.DavisDyerisafoundingpartneroftheWinthropGroup,Inc.,aconsultingcompanyofhistoriansandarchivists,withofficesinCambridge,MassachusettsandNewYorkCity.Heisawidelypublishedauthorinbusinessandexonomichistoryandmanagementstudies.RecentpublicationsincludeTRW:PioneeringTechnologyandInnovationSince1900(Boston:HarvardBuinessSchoolPress,1998);(withDanielGross)TheGenerationsofCorning:TheLifeandTimesofanAmericanCompany(NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,forthcoming2001);and(withNitinNohriaandFrederickA.B.Dalzell),FallingFortunes:TheWaningoftheIndustrialCorporationattheEndoftheAmericanCentury(NewYork:Wiley,forthcoming2001).DyerearnedhisundergraduateandgraduatedegreesinhistoryatHarvardUniversity,taughtatBostonCollege,andservedasanassociateeditoroftheHarvardBusinessReviewbeforejoiningWinthropGroupin1986.

【目录】

CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION

George Washington

John Adams 

Thomas Jefferson

James Madison

James Monroe

John Quincy Adams

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

William Henry Harrison

John Tyler

James K. Polk

Zachary Taylor

Millard Fillmore

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Johnson

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes 

James A. Garfield

Chester Arthur

Grover Cleveland

Benjamin Harrison

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

Woodrow Wilson 

Warren G. Harding

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS    

FOR FURTHER READING

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

INDEX 

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