华盛顿：一个不可少的男人 Washington: The Indispensable Man
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作者： James Thomas Flexner著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2007-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 423印刷时间： 2007/12/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780316286169包装： 平装内容简介
After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-volume biography George Washington, which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume,has itself become an American classic. Now in a new trade paper-back edition, this masterful work explores the Father of Our Country -- sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contra-dictions, but always a towering historical figurel who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, "a fallible human being made of flesh and blood and spirit -- not a statue of marble and wood...a great and good man." The author unflinchingly paints a por-trait of Washington: slave owner, brave leader, man of passion, reluctant politician, and fierce general. His complex character and career are neither glorified nor vilified here; rather, Flexnersets up a brilliant counterpoint between Washington's public and private lives and gives us a challenging look at the man who has become as much a national symbol as the American flag.
目录
Introduction
1.A Powerful Apprenticeship (1732-1753)
2.A Clumsy Entrance on the World Stage (1753-1754)
3.Love and Massacre (i754-i755)
4.Desperation and Disillusionment (i 755-i 759)
5.George Washington's First War ( 1753-I 759)
6.A Virginia Businessman ( 1759-1775)
7.Washington in His Landscapes ( 1759-1775)
8.A New Call to Arms (1765-1775)
9.A Virginian in Yankee-Land (1775)
10.An Early Triumph (1775-i776)
11.The Continental Army on Trial (1776)
12.Depths (1776-1777)
13.Heights (1777)
14.The Loss of Philadelphia (1777)
15.The Conway Cabal ( 1777-1778)
16.The Road Turns Upward (1778)
17.Hope Abroad and Bankruptcy at Home (1778-1779)
18.Enter a French Army (1779-1780)
19.Treason (1775-1780)
20.Virginia Endangered (1780-1781)
21.Yorktown (1781)
22.A Gulf of Civil Horror (I781-1783)
23.Goodbye to War (1775-1783)
24.Pleasures at Home (1783-1787)
25.Canals and Conventions (1783-1787)
26.The Constitution of the United States (1787-1788)
27.Hysteria and Responsibility (1788)
28.A Second Constitutional Convention (1789)
29.The Social Man (1789)
30.Infighting Foreshadowed (1790)
3I.The Great Schism Opens (1790-1792)
32.Europeans and Indians (1783-1792)
33.Desire to Escape (1791-1792)
34.No Exit (1790-1793)
35.Bad Omens (1792-1793)
36.Earthquake Faults (1793 and thereafter)
37.A French Bombshell (1793)
38.Trouble All Around (1793)
39.A Tragic Departure (1793)
4o.Opposite Hands Across the Ocean (1794)
4I.The Whiskey Rebellion (179O-1794)
42.The Democratic Societies (1794)
43.A Disastrous Document (1795)
44.Tragedy with a Friend (1795)
45.Downhill (1795-1796)
46.Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
47.The End of the Presidency (1796-1797)
48.Home Again (1797-1799)
49.Mental Confusion (1797-1798)
50.Politics at Sunset (1798-1799)
51.Washington and Slavery (1732-1799)
52.Death of a Hero (1799)
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
