权力的代价：米奇·麦康奈尔如何掌握参议院、改变美国并失去他的政党 The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

基本信息

Format:Hardback 416 pages

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Imprint:Simon & Schuster

ISBN:9781668005842

Published:29 Oct 2024

Weight:578g

Dimensions:229 x 152 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“今年受期待的政治书籍。”——Politico

这是米奇·麦康奈尔的第1本传记，揭示了美国历史上有权势的参议员之一的个人和政治生活。

在美国政府的悠久历史中，很少有参议员能像肯塔基州的米奇·麦康奈尔那样拥有如此大的权力。这并非偶然；他一生都在努力培养自己的统治地位。

在《权力的代价》中，获奖记者迈克尔·塔克特揭开了美国参议院有史以来具影响力的人物之一的面纱，为您呈现了他生活和职业生涯的亲密、个人视角。塔克特利用数千页的档案材料、信件以及 100 多次与同事、同事和麦康奈尔本人的采访，拼凑了麦康奈尔早年生活的故事、他小时候与小儿麻痹症的斗争，并详细描述了他作为参议院有影响力的领导人之一的四十多年职业生涯。

麦康奈尔一生都是共和党人，1985 年加入参议院时，他以务实的温和立法者而闻名。塔克特追溯了他稳步向右的倾向，麦康奈尔的政治生涯随着他巩固和运用权力的精湛能力而不断发展。但这样的成功是有代价的。特朗普时代带来了一个几乎面目全非的共和党的崛起，充斥着一种反应性民粹主义，甚至麦康奈尔本人也难以控制。

《权力的代价》以专家报道、独特的渠道和从未公开过的揭露为特色，对权力的代价进行了深入描绘——获得权力、维持权力、部署权力，以及最终看着权力从你手中溜走需要什么。

"The year's most anticipated political book." --Politico

The first definitive biography of Mitch McConnell, revealing an intimate look at the personal and political life of one of the most powerful senators in American history.

In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky's Mitch McConnell. That's no accident; he worked his entire life to cultivate his dominance.

In The Price of Power, award-winning journalist Michael Tackett pulls back the curtain on one of the most influential figures to ever set foot in the American Senate, offering you an intimate, personal view of his life and career. Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, letters, and more than 100 interviews with associates, colleagues, and McConnell himself, Tackett pieces together the story of McConnell's early life, his formative battle with polio as a youngster, and details his forty-plus-year career as one of the Senate's most impactful leaders.

A lifelong Republican, McConnell was known as a pragmatic moderate legislator when he joined the Senate in 1985. Tackett traces his steady rightward drift, as McConnell's politics evolved with his masterful ability to consolidate and wield power. But such success comes at a cost. The Trump years brought with them the rise of an almost unrecognizable Republican party, suffused with a reactive populism that even McConnell himself would struggle to control.

Featuring expert reporting, unprecedented access, and never-before-published revelations, The Price of Power is an inside portrait of exactly that--what it takes to achieve power, maintain it, deploy it, and, finally, watch it slip out of your hands.

作者简介

迈克尔·塔克特是一位屡获殊荣的记者，拥有 30 多年报道国家政治的经验，其中包括 9 次总统选举。他目前是美联社华盛顿分社副社长。在此之前，他曾担任《纽约时报》编辑和记者和《芝加哥论坛报》华盛顿分社社长以及《美国新闻与世界报道》的国内编辑。他是白宫记者协会颁发的埃德加·A·坡国内报道奖的获得者。他的第1本书《棒球耳语者》讲述了爱荷华州克拉林达市一支夏季联赛棒球队的故事，该球队帮助培养了数十名大联盟球员。他现居弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市。

Michael Tackett is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience covering national politics, including nine presidential elections. He is currently the Deputy Washington Bureau Chief for the Associated Press. Before that, he was an editor and reporter for The New York Times, Washington Bureau Chief for both Bloomberg News and the Chicago Tribune, and National Editor for US News & World Report. He is a recipient of the White House Correspondents Association's Edgar A. Poe Award for National Reporting. His first book, The Baseball Whisperer, tells the story of a summer league baseball team in Clarinda, Iowa that helped shape dozens of major league players. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.