权力的艺术 托马斯 杰斐逊传 豆瓣阅读 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

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

一部权力使用指南

对权力的深刻领悟对美国崛起的另一种理解

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荣登美国亚马逊畅销书总榜 

很少的一些人因为明白权力是用来做什么的，而被历史铭记。托马斯?杰斐逊正是其中之一。

作为《独立宣言》起草人，路易斯安那购地案、刘易斯与克拉克远征的发起人，弗吉尼亚大学的创始人，美国第三任总统托马斯?杰斐逊被誉为一位近乎天才的人物，通常被视为美国的创造者和设计师。他学识渊博、待人和善，深谙权力和人性。杰斐逊生活和工作在一个一切都是未知的年代，他的大半生都在寻求自控和影响他人生活及命运的能力，而他的天才之处就在于：他既是哲学家，又是政治家，而且常常能同时扮演好两种角色。

普利策奖得主乔恩?米查姆从浩如烟海的资料中，梳理、还原杰斐逊伟大的一生，及贯穿其一生的政治理念。他选择从政治视角解读、审视杰斐逊的身份和性格，认为在他身上，人们看到了人类所能经历的各种各样让人惊叹的可能性：渴求知识、创造的能力和亲友的爱；渴望取得成就，获得世界的赞赏、对权力的控制和让他人服从于一个人的远见。他的才能体现于他的全知全能，而他更伟大的政治遗产则在于他对思想和人类的领导力。伟大的领导既不是空想家，也不是独裁者。他们如杰斐逊一样，既畅言国家宏图伟业，又深谙权力之道，懂得达权知变。这就是权力的艺术。

这本书不仅是一部精彩的传记，更是一部权力使用指南，对美国崛起的另一种理解。

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

作者简介

乔恩·米查姆

普利策奖得主、兰登书屋执行主编兼执行副总裁、《时代》杂志特约编辑。曾任《新闻周刊》编辑，并为《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》等报刊撰稿。著有《富兰克林和温斯顿》等多部畅销巨著。

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, 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.ZFB9v7_!!866276081.jpg">