Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
In his introduction, veteran biographer Chernow is clear about his goals. Using the recent "explosion of research," he wants to render George Washington "real" and "credible," to replace "frosty respect" with "visceral appreciation." In many respects, Chernow succeeds. He gives us a Washington who starts with limited education and means and, through a remarkable combination of timely deaths, an incredible capacity for hard work, a shrewd marriage, astonishing physical hardiness and courage, a propensity for land speculation, and a gift for finding influential patrons, transforms himself into a soldier, well-to-do planter, local official, and eventually the only real choice to command the Continental army, preside over the Constitutional Convention, and serve as the first president. Chernow makes familiar scenes fresh (like the crossing of the Delaware) and expertly brings the provisional revolutionary and early Republican eras to life. Along the way, however, he mistakes "visceral" for ardent; while he never hides Washington's less than saintly moments or shirks the vexed question of slavery, he often seems to ignore the data he's collected. Examples of shady dealing are quickly followed by tales of Washington's unimpeachable ethics or impeccable political savvy. At times it feels as if Chernow, for all his careful research and talent for synthesis, is in the grip of a full-scale crush. The result is a good book that would have been great if better edited, and if Chernow had trusted that Washington's many merits, even when accompanied by his faults, would speak for themselves.
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一直想做一點關於美國國父Washington的筆記。作為曾在Virginia待瞭三年的我,正是在Washington的故居Mount Vernon和我的妻子確立瞭戀愛關係。Virginia總是和那些founding fathers諸如華盛頓、傑佛遜、麥迪遜、門羅等人聯係在一起,也和之後悲催的南北戰爭聯係在一起。在那裏,...
評分一直想做一點關於美國國父Washington的筆記。作為曾在Virginia待瞭三年的我,正是在Washington的故居Mount Vernon和我的妻子確立瞭戀愛關係。Virginia總是和那些founding fathers諸如華盛頓、傑佛遜、麥迪遜、門羅等人聯係在一起,也和之後悲催的南北戰爭聯係在一起。在那裏,...
評分一直想做一點關於美國國父Washington的筆記。作為曾在Virginia待瞭三年的我,正是在Washington的故居Mount Vernon和我的妻子確立瞭戀愛關係。Virginia總是和那些founding fathers諸如華盛頓、傑佛遜、麥迪遜、門羅等人聯係在一起,也和之後悲催的南北戰爭聯係在一起。在那裏,...
評分一直想做一點關於美國國父Washington的筆記。作為曾在Virginia待瞭三年的我,正是在Washington的故居Mount Vernon和我的妻子確立瞭戀愛關係。Virginia總是和那些founding fathers諸如華盛頓、傑佛遜、麥迪遜、門羅等人聯係在一起,也和之後悲催的南北戰爭聯係在一起。在那裏,...
評分一直想做一點關於美國國父Washington的筆記。作為曾在Virginia待瞭三年的我,正是在Washington的故居Mount Vernon和我的妻子確立瞭戀愛關係。Virginia總是和那些founding fathers諸如華盛頓、傑佛遜、麥迪遜、門羅等人聯係在一起,也和之後悲催的南北戰爭聯係在一起。在那裏,...
圖書標籤: 傳記 曆史 美國 華盛頓 政治 pulitzer history 美國研究
華盛頓在獨立戰爭中的經曆可謂一個有準備的人在時勢中抓住機會,成為英雄的人,在獨立戰爭中他也經曆太多挫摺,甚至在經曆的大部分戰鬥中都是失敗的,但是他恰恰打贏瞭關鍵的戰鬥,贏得瞭整個戰役。他也是一個充滿政治智慧的人,他懂得取捨之道,讓其在聲望鼎盛之際依然能保持清醒,不讓自己為權勢的欲望所纍,這份知進退也讓其人格魅力得以在曆史中刻下深深的烙印。
評分的確是比傑斐遜、亞當斯等人高得不知道哪裏去瞭
評分的確是比傑斐遜、亞當斯等人高得不知道哪裏去瞭
評分斷斷續續讀瞭一年。極有味道的一本書,營養豐富,品位絕佳。最有共鳴的,卻是漢密爾頓。
評分Here comes the general! The moment you've been waiting for! The pride of Mount Vernon! George Washington!
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