To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions.
Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being.
普利策奬得主約瑟夫·艾利斯(Joseph J. Ellis)的著述是近年來最為暢銷的華盛頓傳記
当华盛顿和美法联军主力部队于9 月15 日到达时,约克镇的所有出路都被堵死了。“将来的命运会如何,我们还很不确定,”几个星期以后,华盛顿写道,“但我们预见到康沃利斯的军队将元气大伤,这让我们十分满足。”华盛顿盼望了整整6 年的转折性战役终于要来临了,尽管它比想象中...
評分作为美国开国之父,华盛顿的重要性是毋容置疑的。任何国家的成功都离不开第一步:独立。没有独立任何事情都不可能完成,所以说无论是杰斐逊、富兰克林、麦迪逊、亚当斯在他们自己方面的成功和华盛顿都是不可以比的。 华盛顿有着过人的领导力,他提拔的第一个人才,詹姆斯麦迪...
評分在200多年前,一个人,用超凡的洞察力,免疫于最高权利的诱惑,出演了人类历史上最伟大的退场,奠定了一种体制的传统。是因为这样一个决定,而不是因为当了美国首任总统,华盛顿成为了人类文明发展史上无法超越的巨人。 今天就我们的现实,大家把当下的所有社会矛盾症结都归结...
評分华盛顿让人佩服的一点是,不贪恋权利,既不想做国王,又不想当独裁者,于是他开创了主动让权的先例,一个至今美国任然奉行的先例,同时也铸就了华盛顿的神话。当然,比起军事打战,他比不上老毛,当时在治国这方面,他比老毛要强点,这或许就是人无完人。“一代天骄,成吉思汗...
評分和托马斯.杰佛逊渊博的学识以及本杰明.富兰克林耀眼的智商和亚历山大.汉弥尔顿杰出的才华不一样的是,鲁莽而又固执的乔治.华盛顿只有相当于小学教育程度的学历,是一个对于执著于追求对土地的拥有权的人。终其一生,其所指挥的战争失败的次数远大于胜利的次数;他没能够解放属...
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