Лучшие книги Алана Бринкли

В ноябре 2013 года исполняется 50 лет со дня убийства Джона Фицджеральда Кеннеди. Перед вами биография тридцать пятого президента США, написанная известным историком, профессором Колумбийского университета Аланом Бринкли для книжной серии "Американские президенты". Самый молодой из когда-либо избранных президентов страны, первый президент-католик, невероятно харизматичный, казалось, Кеннеди олицетворял собой начало новой эпохи в истории США. Многие демократические преобразования, в корне изменившие Америку в 60-е и 70-е годы прошлого столетия, пропитаны духом, который удалось создать в стране Джону Фицджеральду Кеннеди. Как пишет Бринкли,…

Three prominent and highly visible writers confront the threats posed by current challenges to the American Constitution. In the aftermath of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, three of its most gifted participants--Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay--wrote a series of eighty-five essays, published in newspapers throughout the nation, defending the proposed new government against its opponents. Those essays, known today as the Federalist Papers, explain the philosophical basis of the Constitution and defend the idea of republican government against charges that it would lead to tyranny. Today's political controversies…

Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century. As the founder of Time, Fortune, and Life magazines, Luce changed the way we consume news and the way we understand our world. Born the son of missionaries, Henry Luce spent his childhood in rural China, yet he glimpsed a milieu of power altogether different at Hotchkiss and later at Yale. While working at a Baltimore newspaper, he and Brit Hadden conceived the idea of Time: a “news-magazine” that would condense the week’s events in a format accessible to increasingly busy members of the…