本书作者给英国两个最出名的女王写传记。一部是《维多利亚女王传》(1921)。另一部就是本书,写伊丽莎白一世,写她对埃塞克斯伯爵从爱他到处死他的“一部悲剧性的历史”。这是一部交织着男女恋慕之情和君臣权力之争的真实的历史。本书对英国女王伊丽莎白及其巨下埃塞克斯两人的思想、性格、才能、作风,以及他们在政治上和感情上那种不寻常关系的发展变化,作了生动的描述和精辟的分析,以此开创了现代传记文学的新路。
◆國立政治大學政治學系副教授 葉浩 專文導讀 ◆1982 年《洛杉磯時報》傳記類圖書獎,1983 年美國國家猶太圖書獎 二十世紀最重要的政治思想家——漢娜鄂蘭 ...
本書以生動而簡潔的語言介紹了美國歷史上的四位傑出人物——喬治•華盛頓、本傑 明•佛蘭克林、丹尼爾•韋伯斯特和亞伯拉罕•林肯的傳奇故事。他們歷經挫折,卻從不輕言 ...
An engaging biography of Benjamin Franklin, published on the tricentennial of his birth, offers a marvelous portrait of this towering colonial figure, who, with only two years of formal education, managed to lead one of the most ...
In 1970, a second lode of Hart materials came to light, the 77 volumes of his journals, begun on the day of his arrival in China in 1854 and ending at his departure in 1908, with two short but significant gaps in the first decade where he ...
Describes the life, achievements, rise to power, and influences of the military leader who crowned himself Emperor of the French and established dominance over Europe.
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He was already an admirer of the wit , speaking ability and literary style of Adlai Stevenson . Once Stevenson had been Eban's introducer at a mass meeting in the Chicago Stadium at which they became well enough acquainted so that for ...
《富兰克林自传》是美国迄今为止被广泛阅读的重要自传作品之一,无论从自传的角度还是从美国思想史的角度来看,都具有划时代的意义。富兰克林以拉家常的方式,把自己成功的 ...
本书共分十九章,内容包括:波士顿家族轶事和幼年生活,少年人生之印刷工人,抵达费城,初回波士顿,费城的早期朋友们,初到伦敦,费城创业,创业成功和首次服务公众,完美品德计划 ...
然而,他们也多少有些称颂拿破仑的权力和政府。“只要你愿意,就可以弄响链条,”歌德说,“他对你来说太强大了。”黑格尔称拿破仑是“世界历史上的英雄”。而最有影响力的历史学家约翰内斯·冯·缪勒(Johanners von Müller),称赞拿破仑为“历史上无人可比的英雄”。