Washington: A Life

基本信息

Paperback: 928 pages

Publisher: Penguin; Reprint edition (1 Dec. 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0143119966

ISBN-13: 978-0143119968

Product Dimensions: 153 x 235 x 50mm | 1,096g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《国家的选择：华盛顿与他的时代》作者罗恩·彻尔诺经过大量细致入微的调研，创作出有史以来最完整公正的华盛顿传记。通过影响美国诞生的一系列重大事件，以及从无数来源收集的逸闻趣事，尽可能还原真实的华盛顿，揭示他领导美国背后的奥秘。彻尔诺笔下的华盛顿怀有一股冲劲，观点激昂。他带领美国赢得独立战争的胜利，他没有顺应主流用皇冠为自己加冕，他开创了美国总统至多连任两次的先例，为之后各届总统创立了标准，他是一个政治家中的政治家。

罗恩·彻尔诺披露了乔治·华盛顿以往人所不知的生活及家庭细节，研究了他与母亲之间的紧张关系，他年轻时候对已婚的莎莉·费尔法克斯的迷恋、与玛莎的婚姻，并刻画了他身为奴隶主的复杂表现。

书中还对美国建国初期的情况做了准确、忠实的记录。在这部重要的传记中，重大题材配以激动人心的书写，完成了一部逐页了解美国创建过程中的所有重大事件的纸上之旅。

《国家的选择：华盛顿与他的时代》荣获2011年普利策传记奖。

The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention and his magnificent performance as America's first president.

Despite the reverence his name inspires Washington remains a waxwork to many readers, worthy but dull, a laconic man of remarkable self-control. But in this groundbreaking work Chernow revises forever the uninspiring stereotype. He portrays Washington as a strapping, celebrated horseman, elegant dancer and tireless hunter, who guarded his emotional life with intriguing ferocity. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, he orchestrated their actions to help realise his vision for the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.

Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding. This is a magisterial work from one of America's foremost writers and historians.

作者简介

（美）罗恩·彻尔诺，美国著名传记作家，普利策奖、国家图书奖双料得主。他之前有五部著作都赢得了普利策奖。其中，第一部著作《摩根家族》获得美国国家图书奖，《亚历山大·汉密尔顿》和《提坦：约翰·洛克菲勒的一生》都被提名为传记作品美国国家图书评论奖决赛奖。

Ron Chernow is the prize-winning author of five previous books. His first, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award. His two most recent books, Alexander Hamilton and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Chernow lives in Brooklyn, New York.