American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet’s significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era’s leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents. The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation. Packer’s novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date. [该内容由Taobao.com 乐读书屋提供]

本书是美国著名历史学家艾明如的作品。本书以泰普家的发展为切入视角，为读者讲述了泰普家族三代人的故事，故事的核心是这个家族在美国的创始人赵洽（约瑟夫·泰普）在淘金潮之后成为移民代理人的奋斗经历。作者耗时十年，用新文化史和社会史的研究方法为我们讲述了华裔美国人群体的一段真实的历史，展示了十分广阔的社会画面，从小家庭的历程透视了华裔移民群体的历史以及旧金山城、加州乃至美国社会的变迁，从很多侧面反映了美国的历史。本书是第一部讲述第一代华人在美国奋斗发展历史的作品，对于历史学研究者和爱好者有重要的参考价值。

本书尝试从文化的角度切入美国对外政策，通过历史的考察和政策过程的分析来研究意识形态对20世纪美国外交政策，特别是对华政策的影响。本书的学术价值在于在中国学术界第一次对美国外交中的意识形态及其对美中关系的影响进行了全面、系统的研究，有助于全面了解当代美国外交和美国对华政策的意识形态基础；纠正和弥补主导当前中国人（包括学者、官员和民众）观察和研究美国外交和对华政策的现实主义范式的偏颇与不足，为观察美国外交政策提供一个新的视角。

本书建立在系统的资料收集的基础上，立体地再现美利坚合众国的历史本色。全书共分为四部。上起本杰明·富兰克林讲述美国的开国故事，下至乔治·布什写的是冷战的开始和终结。本书最大特点就是采用了我国读者喜好的演义体，不排除穿插一些虚构情节，但有些材料可能比历史还历史。

《边走边看美国历史》以一个特立独行者的游学见闻为线索，边行走边思考，从1607年第一个殖民地詹姆斯镇的建立到上世纪八十年代里根总统带领美国实现重新振兴，纵横三百多年。作者通过深入分析、精选翻译历史文献、总统演讲、重要演说、文学作品、诗歌电影等的英文原文，向读者再现了影响美国历史进程的重大的人物和事件，阐释了美国性格和美国精神的内涵，探寻了美国实验和美国奇迹的原因。

Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without question the definitive one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. From there it moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering by each side, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict. The South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war, slavery, and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.