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简介：Did you know that Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of calculus, and discoverer of the universal laws of gravity and thermodynamics ,was interested in astrology? Or that, in his day, the seventeenth century astronomer, Johannes Kepler, was more famous for the uncanny accuracy of his astrological predictions than for his three laws of planetary motion? Julius Caesar, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Carl Jung...the list of greats who followed astrology is a very long one. Like you, those distinguished women and men sensed that the stars play an important role in shaping our characters and our destinies. Astrology For Dummies is a fun, easy intro to astrology's mysteries. Rae Orion, author of New Woman magazine's monthly astrology column, offers a shortcut through the jargon and tells you how to: Understand how the planets affect you Figure out your horoscope Interpret sun signs, moon signs, rising signs, and more Know what your horoscope means for romance, work, and your future Apply astrology to everyday decisions Take advantage of astrology software and Web sites Astrology goes much deeper than the sun signs covered in your daily paper, and Astrology For Dummies is your star chart for navigating its many depths, twists, and turns. You'll explore the significance of the Sun, Moon, planets, rising sign, and the twelve houses. And in no time you'll: Cast your birth chart and look up each sign in it by sign and house Unearth basic patterns that characterize your chart as a whole Analyze the geometrical relationships linking your planets Interpret with voids, empty houses, and other manifestations of zero Recognize how current planetary placements, or transits , influence your life Understand retrograde planets and why they're not always bad Use astrology in everyday life and use the Moon to your utmost advantage For millennia, people have used astrology to help them unlock the mysteries of their psyches, unleash their potentials, make the right matches, and even take an occasional peek into the future. Now let Astrology For Dummies show you how to make it work for you.

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简介：Recent decades have produced a blossoming of research in artificial systems that exhibit important properties of mind. But what exactly is this dramatic new work and how does it change the way we think about the mind, or even about who or what has mind? Stan Franklin is the perfect tour guide through the contemporary interdisciplinary matrix of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial neural networks, artificial life, and robotics that is producing a new paradigm of mind. Leisurely and informal, but always informed, his tour touches on all of the major facets of mechanisms of mind. Along the way, Franklin makes the case for a perspective that rejects a rigid distinction between mind and non-mind in favor of a continuum from less to more mind, and for the role of mind as a control structure with the essential task of choosing the next action. Selected stops include the best of the work in these different fields, with the key concepts and results explained in just enough detail to allow readers to decide for themselves why the work is significant. Major attractions include animal minds, Allan Newell's SOAR, the three Artificial Intelligence debates, John Holland's genetic algorithms, Wilson's Animat, Brooks' subsumption architecture, Jackson's pandemonium theory, Ornstein's multimind, Marvin Minsky's society of mind, Pattie Maes's behavior networks, Gerald Edelman's neural Darwinism, Drescher's schema mechanisms, Pentti Kanerva's sparse distributed memory, Douglas Hofstadter and Melanie Mitchell's Copycat, and Agre and Chapman's deictic representations. [from Publisher]

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简介：Includes essays by Dylan Thomas, Margaret Laurence, Wallace Stegner, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Richard Hugo, Bruno Bettelheim, Paul Fussell, Alice Walker, Scott Sanders, Joan Didion, Loren Eiseley, E.B. White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, May Sarton, Woody Allen, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, N. Scott Momaday, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Carl Sagan, Neil Postman, Jacob Bronowski, Isaac Asimov, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, William Zinsser, Lewis Thomas, H.L. Mencken, Gloria Naylor, Richard Rodriguez, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, John Henry Newman, Abraham Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Cary, William Faulkner, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Robert Pirsig, John McPhee, Anthony Burgess, Wendell Berry, S.J. Perelman, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Steinem, Betty Rollin, Jessica Mitford, Jonathan Schell, Garrison Keillor, Carol Gilligan, Judith Viorst, Desmond Morris, Oliver Sacks, James Baldwin, Norman Podhoretz, Malcolm Cowley, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Samuel L. Clemens, Tom Regan, Stephen Jay Gould, W.H. Auden, William Blake, Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin, George Bernard Shaw, Chief Seattle, John Houseman, Hannah Arendt, Michael Arlen, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ralph W. Conant, Martin Luther King Jr., Jonathan Swift, Niccolo Machiavelli, Walter Lippmann, Edward O. Wilson, Konrad Z. Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, Nigel Calder, Arthur Koestler, Thomas S. Kuhn, John Gardner, Vladimir Nabokov, Northrop Frye, Annie Dillard, Susanne K. Langer, Carl G. Jung, Robert Frost, Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, S.I. Hayakawa, Christopher Fry, Aaron Copland, Aesop, Plato, Jesus, Franz Kafka, Robert Graves, E.F. Schumacher, Langston Hughes, Paul Tillich, C.S. Lewis, E.M. Forster, Gilbert Highet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tom Bethell, Alexander Petrunkevitch, Carl Becker, Kildare Dobbs, Herbert Butterfield, Michael Stone, Thomas Murray, Gilbert Ryle, Willard Gayli n, Edward Hallett Carr, Michael Herr, Frances FitzGerald, Carl Cohen, Judith Martin, Paul West, Robert Finch, Barbara Carson, John McMurtry, Brent Staples, Dan Lacy, Stanley Milgram, Phyllis Rose, Ian Frazier, Robert Burchfield, Wayne C. Booth, Nancy Sommers, John Leo, June Callwood, Daniel Mark Epstein, and others.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 With Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards, two of the bestselling finance titles of all time, Jack Schwager is one of the most important and visible figures in the futures industry today. Now, in Managed Trading, the latest volume in the Schwager on Futures series, he takes an in-depth look at the increasingly prominent new asset class: managed futures, professionally managed investments in commodity and financial futures markets. Due to their potentially high returns and their diversification and inflation hedging potential, managed futures have grown rapidly in popularity and acceptance in the past decade. Today, there are over $25 million in managed futures accounts. Schwager's full-scale examination covers all aspects of this investment sector, encompassing performance evaluation, manager selection, investment timing, and portfolio considerations. In the process, he explodes many commonly held investment myths. Managed Trading is the most substantive book on the subject, and an indispensable Schwager title no investor should be without.The following are some of the many topics covered: Why "actual" trading results are sometimes a misnomer Why many investors in managed futures lose money even when they select a winning manager Why shifting assets from "winners" to "losers" is often an excellent strategy Why it is usually better to invest in managers when they are experiencing drawdowns as opposed to when they are on winning streaks Why the actual performance of funds and pools routinely deteriorates dramatically from the prospectus results Is past performance predictive of future performance? Is the addition of managed futures to conventional portfolios beneficial or detrimental to performance? Is diversification beneficial? Performance measures: conventional and new Why all conventional CTA indexes are misleadingWith numerous charts, tables, and examples illustrating key points throughout, Managed Trading is written in the informative, insightful, and nontechnical style that is Schwager's hallmark. An important addition to this landmark series by one of the world's premier authorities.An in-depth investigation into the increasingly popular investment: managed futures鈥攚ritten by one of the world's leading authorities"Jack Schwager has written the definitive book on managed futures investing. It is exhaustive in coverage, and the analysis is exceptionally rigorous. The writing is refreshingly candid and sure to provoke discussion on many important topics in the managed futures industry. This book should be required reading for anyone considering investing in managed futures." 鈥?Scott Irwin Professor, The Ohio State University"Jack continues to be both an educator and a portfolio manager. Managed Trading is a wonderful book and much needed in the industry. I consider it required reading for investors and financial industry professionals. Finally, a road map which outlines and explores investment issues succinctly." 鈥?M. Elaine Crocker President, Moore Capital Management, Inc."This book is a 'must-read' for anyone thinking of investing in managed futures. Schwager combines the best of academic research on managed futures investments with his own practitioner experience to provide a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the managed futures industry." 鈥?Franklin R. Edwards Arthur F. Burns, Professor, Finance and Economics Columbia Business School"The futures markets will continue to grow worldwide. You should read Jack Schwager whether you are contemplating such investments or are already investing, or even if you just want to understand what is happening." 鈥?Jim Rogers Author, Investment Biker"Schwager puts managed futures in its proper perspective as a portfolio investment, providing the reader a complete and enlightening tour of the managed futures world. His writing style makes for easy reading and his common sense and good judgment shine throug  

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简介：Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is here. A monumental literary feat that follows the author's critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Cryptonomicon, it is history, adventure, science, truth, invention, sex, absurdity, piracy, madness, death, and alchemy. It sweeps across continents and decades with the power of a roaring tornado, upending kings, armies, religious beliefs, and all expectations. It is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe, in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. It is a chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of "Half-Cocked Jack" Shaftoe -- London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds -- risking life and limb for fortune and love while slowly maddening from the pox ... and Eliza, rescued by Jack from a Turkish harem to become spy, confidante, and pawn of royals in order to reinvent a contentious continent through the newborn power of finance. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel that brings a remarkable age and its momentous events to vivid life -- a historical epic populated by the likes of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton, William of Orange, Benjamin Franklin, and King Louis XIV -- Quicksilver is an extraordinary achievement from one of the most original and important literary talents of our time. And it's just the beginning ...

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作者：  (美)本杰明·富兰克林(Benjamin Franklin)著

出版社：中国青年出版社,2013

简介：　　1. 位列美国国会图书馆 “塑造美国的88本书”系列丛书之一。这88部由美国国会图书馆遴选出来的书籍由美国作家所著、对美国社会最具影响力，体现出的是一个“美国精神”的形成过程，对于国家民族的认同具有非凡意义，并且不会因为时代变迁而被替代。 　　2.美国开国元勋、“资本主义圣人”本杰明·富兰克林借“穷理查”之名，以箴言的形式，分享自己从社会底层到人生巅峰的成功经验与人生感悟。当年出版时，几乎每个家庭都有一本，影响了数代的美国人。 　　3.本书的《财富之路》章节被公认为投资致富的经典，被列入哈佛商学院、沃顿商学院MBA推荐书目，美国各大公司和金融机构奉若圭臬。 　　4.美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马、全球首富沃伦·巴菲特、华尔街教父本杰明·格雷厄姆、投资大师查理·芒格、华人商界领袖李嘉诚、台湾著名学者李敖推荐。 　　5. 读着这一条条关于生活、成功、财富、事业等主题的箴言，你竟不会感觉到一点枯燥，因为里面有富兰克林的经验、感悟、智慧，尤其是富兰克林的幽默风趣，常常让你在忍俊不禁时，收获智者的成功之道，并且由衷感谢他充满善意的警世箴言，因为它能让你少犯错误，少走弯路。

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Practitioner Martin gives professionals who want to understand and implement identity-based encryption (IBE) much more than the fundamentals, providing practical techniques and algorithms, details on how and why certain IBE systems are secure, and numerous worked examples. He explains basic mathematical concepts and properties for novices, then advances as he describes the properties of elliptic curves in cryptography, divisors and the Tate pairing, cryptography and computational complexity, cryptographic algorithms, the Cocks and Boneh-Franklin IBE techniques, Boneh-Boyen and Sakai-Kasahara IBE schemes, hierarchical IBE, master secret sharing and the art of calculating pairings. Martin supplies summaries and references for each chapter and also an appendix with useful test data. Annotation 漏2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介："How have ideologues - people drawn to politics by the force of ideas - influenced presidential administrations and even the presidency itself? In Ideologues and Presidents Thomas Langston approaches this question through case studies of three key presidents whose programs changed the direction of the modern domestic agenda. In chapters on Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan, Langston illustrates the important role of ideologues in national politics. In an epilogue on the Bush presidency, Langston demonstrates that ideologues, though they are often overlooked, are now too powerful to be kept out of even the most anti-ideological administrations." "For Langston, these "people of ideas" form a class of political actors distinct not only from pragmatic professional politicians but also from nonideological "experts," with whom ideologues compete for power. Because they are appointed to their governmental positions, ideologues are not directly accountable to the electorate, but report only to the president himself. Whether liberal or conservative, Langston argues, they are a creative yet destructive force in policy making. During the "New Deal" and the "Great Society," strong political parties helped maintain a balance in policy making between interests and ideas. By the time of the Reagan administration, ideologues faced fewer partisan obstacles to turning private dogma into public policy. And the next president who decides to rewrite the nation鈥檚 domestic agenda, Langston concludes, will likely give ideologues even greater power." "Drawing on archival material, personal interviews, oral histories, government documents, and other primary sources, Langston presents the evidence from a variety of theoretical perspectives - among them, party-systems and de-alignment theory, "new class" theory, and anthropological approaches to ideology. With contemporary presidents increasingly dependent on the advice of unelected "people of ideas," Ideologues and Presidentsts de bois dea; l

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简介：　　本杰明·富兰克林的自传The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin，从1771年到1788年，写于不同的时间段。他去世25年后，其孙出版了他的这部自传。富兰克林在65岁那年，即1771年7月住在英国的时候，开始写这本书，中间停了一段时间。1784年在巴黎近郊的时候，又重新开始写。后来又停写一段时间，直到1788年，82岁那年在费城再次重新写。 　　 富兰克林在这部作品中，用朴素的语言写下了他那艰辛的一生。他的自传是美国散文文学中的卓越作品。 　　 他的自传The Story of My Life部分主要写到年轻时候的故事。我们在他的自传中能得到很多教训。比如他是下了多么大的功夫去磨砺自己的天赋，为了完善人格怎样不懈努力，从而成为国民的英雄和国际性的人物。 　　 他虽然10岁的时候退了学，但他自学法语、德语、意大利语、西班牙语和拉丁语，成为了当时最高级的知识分子。富兰克林自己制订了13项道德规范，以使自己达到道德完美。

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 A comprehensive study of Leibniz's writings on China, integrating these writings into Leibniz's philosophy.   Publisher Summary 2 Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take, and how did it compare with the relative indifference of his philosophical contemporaries and others such as Spinoza and Locke? Franklin Perkins examines Leibniz's voluminous writings on the subject and suggests that his interest originated within his own philosophy since the nature of his metaphysical and theological views required him to take Chinese thought seriously.  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This unique book synthesizes and extends the immigrant---trade literature and provides comprehensive coverage of this timely and important topic. In that vein, the author contributes to the understanding of the relationship between immigration and trade and sheds light on a noteworthy aspect of globalization that both confronts policymakers with challenges and offers the potential to overcome them. Roger White documents the pro-trade influences that immigrants have on US imports from, and exports to, their respective home countries. Variations in the immigrant-trade link are addressed, as are the underlying factors that may determine the existence and operability of that link. The findings have direct implications for US immigration policy, suggesting that too few immigrants are currently admitted to the country and that a more liberal immigration policy may enhance social welfare. This book contains valuable economic analyses for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, educated laypersons and practitioners who are interested in public policy, international trade and economics, migration studies, international relations and globalization.   Publisher Summary 2 White (Franklin and Marshall College, US) examines the influence that immigrants have on trade between the host and home countries. Drawing on the published literature and on his own empirical research, he considers such aspects as the channels through which immigrants affect trade, cultural distance between the US and immigrants' home countries, model construction and data sources, perceived versus real benefits/costs and the influence of risk-aversion preferences, and maximizing the net social benefit of immigration. Annotation 漏2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介：　　" Lily Brewster and her brother Robert have all the appearances of being filthy rich, even though the family fortune went out the window with the crash of 1929. But thanks to great-uncle Horatio, who left them Grace and Favor Cottage, a huge mansion on the Hudson not far from Franklin Roosevelt's Hyde Park, the Brewsters live in the style to which they had become accustomed--with a few troublesome limitations."To make sure Lily and Robert didn't go back to being society bums, crafty old Horatio attached some strings to his bequest--and a penny-pinching attorney to manage the funds. Now the poor Brewsters have to actually" work" for money to survive, and Lily comes up with a brilliant scheme. They can turn a profit while they hobnob with their society friends, luring them to" Grace and Favor "for a paying weekend with the promise of big-name celebrities as guests. If Sinclair Lewis hadn't been working on a new book, he might have joined the party; if Amelia Earhart hadn't been busy planning her cross-Atlantic flight, history might not have its own unsolved mystery. And if the Brewsters' celebrity/society bash hadn't been short on luminaries and long on snide barbs and open hostility among the guests, the glittering, glamorous affair might not have turned into a whodunit with one guest dead, one missing, and Lily and Robert chasing a murderer who is ready to strike again.　　

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简介：You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go-they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers candid reviews of so many hotels and restaurants in all price ranges. Every Frommer's Travel Guide is up-to-date, with exact prices for everything, dozens of color maps, and exciting coverage of sports, shopping, and nightlife. Frommer's Philadelphia & the Amish Country, 14th Edition: Points visitors to Philly's best museums, nightlife, and recreational activities. Delivers the details on the new 57-story Comcast Center and the Franklin Institute's King Tut exhibit. Covers exciting developments in Philadelphia's dining scene, including new restaurants from the city's top chefs - plus "The Ultimate Cheesesteak Taste Test." Lists all the best places to eat, drink, and even bathe in chocolate in the town of Hershey. Offers side trips to Bucks County, Valley Forge, and the Brandywine Valley-plus complete coverage of Lancaster County, home of the Amish.

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简介：This book carries a series of brief sketches on how twelve US presidents since Franklin Roosevelt perceived and dealt with South Asia - most particularly, of course, India and Pakistan, from World War II to present day.

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简介：      在线阅读本书          Book Description     The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection that includes autobiographies of Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, and Frederick Douglass, with an Introduction by the editor.          Includes: A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain,and Four Autobiographical Narratives of Zitkala-Sa.          Book Dimension     length: (cm)17.3 width:(cm)10.4

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简介：　　"A few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed 'Miles Franklin, ' saying that the writer had written a novel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, which was written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it. I hadn't read three pages when I saw what you will no doubt see at once--that the story had been written by a girl. And as I went on I saw that the work was Australian--born of the bush. I don't know about the girlishly emotional parts of the book--I leave that to girl readers to judge; but the descriptions of bush life and scenery came startlingly, painfully real to me, and I know that, as far as they are concerned, the book is true to Australia--the truest I ever read. I wrote to Miles Franklin, and she confessed that she was a girl. I saw her before leaving Sydney. She is just a little bush girl, barely twenty-one yet, and has scarcely ever been out of the bush in her life. She has lived her book, and I feel proud of it for the sake of the country I came from, where people toil and bake and suffer and are kind; where every second sun-burnt bushman is a sympathetic humorist, with the sadness of the bush deep in his eyes and a brave grin for the worst of times, and where every third bushman is a poet, with a big heart that keeps his pockets empty." --Henry Lawson, 1901　　

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简介："Few American political figures have had as long, as eventful, as varied, and as consequential a career as James F. "Jimmy" Byrnes of South Carolina. This quintessential self-made man and master politician was centrally involved in many of the epochal domestic and international developments of the first half of the "American Century." Byrnes is arguably among the most experienced and least known of the "wise men" who exercised great political power just below the office of president during World War II and the Cold War. He was certainly the most powerful and influential southern political figure of his era, and he came tantalizingly close to the ultimate political prize, the American presidency - only to be edged out, with Rooseveltian sleight of hand, by Harry S. Truman." "A simple recital of Jimmy Byrnes鈥?career captures its scope. Born in 1882, he was a fatherless boy raised in straitened circumstances by his seamstress mother. He clerked in a Charleston, South Carolina, law office, where he learned the ways of southern politics from two seasoned judges. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1910, he was taken under the wing of the legendary (and virulently racist) Senator Benjamin "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman - the first of Byrnes鈥?Washington "political fathers." Defeated for the Senate in his first campaign in the mid-twenties, he finally won a seat in 1930 with the advice and financial aid of the Democratic party鈥檚 main financier, Bernard Baruch. In the thirties Byrnes became the key legislator of the New Deal, masterfully steering the numerous programs of his great friend Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Brains Trusters through Congress and keeping the Solid South solid. As his political reward Byrnes was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1941, a post he soon resigned, though, to become FDR鈥檚 head of the Office of War Mobilization - the "assistant president" - during World War II, with vast, almost dictatorial powers over the American domestic economy. Byrnes accompanied

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简介：Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. 　　In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the spunky runaway apprentice who became, during his 84-year life, Ameri 更多>>

Franklin Roosevelt

作者：  熊伟民著

出版社：世潮出版公司,2001

简介： 看羅斯福如何振衰起蔽、鞏固美國霸權。 一個身有殘疾的堅強勇者，一位打破美國不成文規定連任三次的總統，他就是羅斯福；就任之際，正值全球的經濟大恐慌，但是他排除萬難，推行新政，再次振興美國經濟；爾後為捍衛民主自由，與英法結盟，從而奠定日後世界霸權的基礎，其卓越貢獻，名垂青史。 < TOP>

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作者：  Carl Van Doren.

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