Wheels for the World

作者：  (美)道格拉斯·布林克利(Douglas brinkley)著;乔江涛译

出版社：中信出版社,2005

简介：历史上，没有几样事物对人类文明的影响像福特汽车公司那样大。这家开创了大规模生产方式的汽车制造企业是一个世纪以前由特立独行的远见家和机械师亨利•福特带着一帮傲慢的怪异天才创建的，是它把整个工业世界带入了现代时期。伴随其他一些社会剧变，物美价廉的福特T型车让美国的工薪阶层为之激动，而慷慨的“日薪5美元”无异于重新定义了工业社会的劳资关系。 最优秀、最有魅力的历史学家之一道格拉斯•布林克利所著的《福特传》是一部丰富多彩的历史传奇，我们可以从中了解到亨利•福特和福特汽车公司如何改变了我们的世界。从T型车不可思议的成功到受人喜爱的A型车和V8再到雷鸟、野马和金牛座的辉煌岁月，布林克利在这部有不朽价值的著作中揭示了有关福特汽车公司那些伟大成就的迷人细节。每一章都会出现杰出的创新家，包括托马斯•爱迪生、艾尔弗雷德•斯隆、迭戈•里维拉和查尔斯•林德伯格。三家工厂也成了精彩戏剧的主人公：高地公园、荣格河和二战中大规模生产B24轰炸机的柳木场。布林克利讲述了福特汽车公司在全世界的扩张以及在20世纪90年代收购沃尔沃、陆虎、美洲虎和马自达的过程，也探讨了福特汽车公司的阴暗面，包括创始人的反犹太主义和欠妥当的战时和平主义。 　　布林克利让我们认识了许许多多个性鲜明的商人。有性情暴躁的早期组织天才詹姆斯•卡曾斯（后来成为美国参议员），有活泼好斗的首席执行官李•艾柯卡，还有今天的这个一腔热情的年轻董事长和CEO小威廉•克莱•福特。现在，小福特正在用自己的奉献和远见带领福特汽车公司度过艰难时期。 　　福特汽车公司是最卓越的美国企业之一。作为一流的传记和福特的商业史，《福特传》的出众之处不仅在于布林克利所透露的那些令人着迷的新资料，还在于波澜壮阔的故事和令人赞叹的清新文笔。布林克利已经在他以前的一些著作中证明他是一个创作杰出的通俗史学作品大师，而《福特传》是他最大的成就。

Tour of Duty:John Kerry and the Vietnam War

作者：  (美)道格拉斯·布林克利(Douglas Brinkley)著;汪海欢译

出版社：昆仑出版社,2004

简介：　　道格拉斯?布林克利在《天职苦旅》一书中，以生动的笔触描述了黄水海军作战的真实情景，声、色、味俱全，令读者获得一种身临其境的体验。然而，《天职苦旅》却不只是另一本战争故事，他的灵魂纯洁依旧，但服务国家的激情未泯。他准备发动一场另类的战争。 　　著名的历史学家道格拉斯?布林克利在《天职苦旅》一书中，追踪了约翰?克里四十多年来从战争到和平的心旅历程。《天职苦旅》是第一部全方位介绍约翰克里的海军生涯的著述。在写作中布林克利教授采访了几乎所有在越南时熟悉约翰?克里的战友，包括所有仍然活着的部下。约翰?克里还为作者提供了他的越战家书和他的多卷“战时笔记”，包括日志、笔记以及在战时、战后撰写的私人回忆录。这些材料从未出版，作者有幸获准不受拘束地引用它们。 　　约翰克里于1966年2月应征入伍美国海军，距他从耶鲁大学毕业仅仅数月。1967年12月海军少尉克里被分配到“格瑞号”护卫舰上。在太平洋上服役五个月，其间在越南稍事逗留，他返回美国接受培训担任江河炮艇艇长，该快艇将在越南江河浅水遂行作战任务。1968年克里晋升中尉，于年底返回越南，前后在两艘快艇上担任过艇长。在《天职苦旅》中，布林克利教授以老到的笔法触及了美国在越南的暴行和柬埔寨等爆炸性事件。通过一系列令人难忘的战斗情节，作者再现了克里三度战斗负伤荣获紫心勋章的经历，克里还因作战勇敢而荣获铜星勋章和海军银星勋童。 　　克里从东南亚返回美国之后，加入了越南退伍军人反战运动（VVAw），并成为杰出的反战运动发言人。他在反战游行的声援下来到国会山前挑战尼克松政府的战争政策。然而正当克里声气扶摇直上之际，1971年四、五月间，美国联邦调查局将他定性为颠覆分子。作者根据最新公开的尼克松录音文件，揭露了白宫助手查尔斯科森和H?R．哈德曼试图诋毁克里名誉的内幕。面对恫吓，克里临威不惧，挺身而出竞选公职，最终脱颖而出当选为代表马萨诸塞州的美国参议员。但是克里却从来没有忘记那些在越战中丧命的战友。他与他的朋友约翰?麦卡因参议员一道多次重返越南，为寻找那些战斗失踪和被俘的美军而不遗余力。在1992年克林顿当选美国总统期间，克里是美越关系正常化的领衔倡导者。当1995年克林顿总统正式承认越南之时，克里为之奋斗三十载的天职苦旅终于画上了一一个句号。　　

The Clinton years : the photographs of Robert McNeely / 1st ed.

作者：  introduction by Douglas Brinkley ; afterword by Robert McNeely.

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简介："Robert McNeely - President Bill Clinton’s official photographer from 1992 to 1998 - has traveled the world and roamed the halls of the White House, a virtual fly-on-the-wall, documenting the day-to-day political and private lives of President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Clinton Years presents in dramatic detail a behind-the-scenes look at the White House with intriguing glimpses into the personal side of Clinton’s presidency." "Clinton trusted McNeely’s vision completely and granted him full access to the inner workings of the presidency. McNeely was Clinton’s constant shadow, quietly recording for posterity the president’s moods, his reactions to key moments and events, his prowess as a politician, his personal charisma and presence, and his interactions with world leaders. An intimate look at the man behind the politician, this collection also reveals Clinton’s relationships with his wife, his staff, his public and the world. These striking images compel the viewer to recognize what an extraordinarily complex individual Bill Clinton is. It is more than a portrait of a president: it is an education about the presidency. The Clinton Years is an essential record of Bill Clinton’s legacy."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward. Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford鈥檚 presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The author of Native Sonpaired with three photographers in the 1930s to chronicle black life in America and this book was the result--a vivid portrait of African-American life, from sharecroppers in Mississippi to storefront churches in Harlem. Reprint.   Publisher Summary 2 12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright’s prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in 1930s America—their misery and weariness under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in northern ghettos. Wright’s accompanying text eloquently narrates the story of these 90 pictures and delivers a powerful commentary on the origins and history of black oppression in this country. Also included are new prefaces by Douglas Brinkley, Noel Ignatiev, and Michael Eric Dyson. “Among all the works of Wright, 12 Million Black Voices stands out as a work of poetry, ... passion, ... and of love.”—David Bradley “A more eloquent statement of its kind could hardly have been devised.”—The New York Times Book Review   Publisher Summary 3 12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in 1930s America—their misery and weariness under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates the story of these 90 pictures and delivers a powerful commentary on the origins and history of black oppression in this country. Also included are new prefaces by Douglas Brinkley, Noel Ignatiev, and Michael Eric Dyson. "Among all the works of Wright, 12 Million Black Voices stands out as a work of poetry, ... passion, ... and of love."—David Bradley "A more eloquent statement of its kind could hardly have been devised."—The New York Times Book Review  

The great deluge : Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast /

作者：  Douglas Brinkley.

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简介：In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart and relates what the Category 3 hurricane was like from every point of view. The book finds the true heroes -- such as Coast Guard officer Jimmy Duckworth and hurricane jock Tony Zumbado. Throughout the book, Brinkley lets the Katrina survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina. The Great Deluge investigates the failure of government at every level and breaks important new stories. Packed with interviews and original research, it traces the character flaws, inexperience, and ulterior motives that allowed the Katrina disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast.