權力的藝術 托馬斯 傑斐遜傳 豆瓣閲讀 英文原版 Thomas Jefferson The Art of Power Jon Meacham

基本信息

By (author) Jon Meacham

Format Paperback | 800 pages

Dimensions 155 x 234 x 30.48mm | 1,056.87g

Publication date 18 Nov 2013

Publisher Random House USA Inc

Imprint Random House Trade Paperbacks

Publication City/Country New York, United States

Language English

Edition Statement Reprint

Illustrations note 3 Photo Inserts; Part Title-Opening Photos

ISBN10 0812979486

ISBN13 9780812979480

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

內容簡介

一部權力使用指南

對權力的深刻領悟對美國崛起的另一種理解

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榮登美國亞馬遜暢銷書總榜 

很少的一些人因為明白權力是用來做什麼的，而被歷史銘記。托馬斯?傑斐遜正是其中之一。

作為《獨立宣言》起草人，路易斯安那購地案、劉易斯與克拉克遠征的發起人，弗吉尼亞大學的創始人，美國第三任總統托馬斯?傑斐遜被譽為一位近乎天才的人物，通常被視為美國的締造者和設計師。他學識淵博、待人和善，深諳權力和人性。傑斐遜生活和工作在一個一切都是未知的年代，他的大半生都在尋求自控和影響他人生活及命運的能力，而他的天才之處就在於：他既是哲學家，又是政治家，而且常常能同時扮演好兩種角色。

普利策獎得主喬恩?米查姆從浩如煙海的資料中，梳理、還原傑斐遜偉大的一生，及貫穿其一生的政治理念。他選擇從政治視角解讀、審視傑斐遜的身份和性格，認為在他身上，人們看到了人類所能經歷的各種各樣讓人驚歎的可能性：渴求知識、創造的能力和親友的愛；渴望取得成就，獲得世界的讚賞、對權力的控制和讓他人服從於一個人的遠見。他的才能體現於他的全知全能，而他更偉大的政治遺產則在於他對思想和人類的領導力。最偉大的領袖既不是空想家，也不是獨裁者。他們如傑斐遜一樣，既暢言國家宏圖偉業，又深諳權力之道，懂得達權知變。這就是權力的藝術。

這本書不僅是一部精彩的傳記，更是一部權力使用指南，對美國崛起的另一種理解。

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. Louis Post-Dispatch - Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things--women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris--Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson's world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity--and the genius of the new nation--lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President's House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world. Praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

"This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written."--Gordon S. Wood

"A big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before."--Entertainment Weekly "[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . [An] absorbing tale."--The Christian Science Monitor "This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today."--Doris Kearns Goodwin

作者簡介

喬恩·米查姆

普利策獎得主、蘭登書屋執行主編兼執行副總裁、《時代》雜誌特約編輯。曾任《新聞週刊》編輯，併為《紐約時報》和《華盛頓郵報》等報刊撰稿。著有《美洲獅》、《富蘭克林和温斯頓》等多部暢銷鉅著。

Jon Meacham received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston. Meacham, who teaches at Vanderbilt University and at The University of the South, is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.