富兰克林•罗斯福，一位将权力在美国历史上扩大到极致的轮椅总统；贝拉克•奥巴马，美国历史上第一位非洲裔总统，从罗斯福到奥巴马，共13位美国总统入主白宫，他们的截然不同的风格和特点，影响着美国乃至全世界的面貌。 谁是好总统？谁又是坏总统？他们为何成功？又有何败笔？ 本书独辟蹊径，以生动的语言、精确的分析和丰富的细节，刻画了从罗斯福到奥巴马13位当代美国总统形象，揭示他们成为总统的人格秘密。

每一代的历史学家都将重新审视并修订前人的作品。本书由普立策奖获得者詹姆斯.M.麦克菲尔森编篡,齐集美国当代最出色的历史学家们共同撰写,并附带大量精美插图。书中的文章充满智慧,高屋建瓴,以新颖的视角来描写美国社会最精彩的人群——美国总统。 没有什么人比当今最有威望和写作最畅销书籍的历史学家来给美国总统撰写新的评价更合适的了。在美国声望显赫的历史学家协会的成员们，对历任美国最高领导人们作出了生动和有思想深度的分析。 透过这些总统，我们看到了这个年轻的国家是怎样穿越历史，从一群殖民地崛起为超级大国。 珍贵的图片展示了美国总统不为人知的轻忪幽默的一面。还有精彩而优美的历任总统就职演说，以及详细的每一届竞选资料。形象而准确地表现了美国的政治生活图画。 总统们的花絮也不可错过。书中描写了一位美围总统在和他的夫人第一次约会的时候就求婚了；只有一位美国副总统经过选举成功当选。本书信息详实，有许多鲜为人知的史实，而且生动有趣。不愧为了解美国总统和美国历史政冶的最好渎本。

《美国总统的信仰:从华盛顿小布什》内容简介：丹尼尔·蒙特认真考察每位总统的信仰，看他们的信仰如何影响了他们的总统职位，以及由此带来的一些重要历史争论。作者使用原始资料，即第一手的信件和回忆，对这一主题进行了最全面的描绘。《美国总统的信仰:从华盛顿小布什》是第一部全面考察美国总统信仰的书，具有很高的历史学价值。

以“推土机”形象示人的强硬派总统也有不为人知的柔情、感性一面。本书是韩国现任总统李明博亲自著书，深情回忆了贫困年代依然坚持培养孩子正直品格，并奉献出自己全部的母亲的点点滴滴。 长年的贫困一度让年少的明博产生了轻生的念头，而弥漫在梨泰院市场中的腥臭味终究还是被烤饼味掩盖，因为那里有妈妈的味道。为了生存，以及供二哥在首尔上大学，明博就和妈妈一起在市场上卖鱼、卖爆米花，当然还有熟悉的烤饼。历经生活的艰辛，但明博仍然看不到希望，即使是一碗配上生鸡蛋的米饭，也成了明博最大的享受。 不过贫困的生活，并没有摧垮明博。哪怕是和妹妹在浦项相依为命，他也将细心照顾着妹妹；哪怕是边工边读，他也能年年考上第一；哪怕是干瘦的身躯，他也总有办法去人力市场找到活干以支付自己的大学学费。 贫困中的李明博也总在母亲的授意下，去帮助更穷的人，甚至是哪些富裕的家庭，正直是那个时期留个他最宝贵的品质，让他能够以一个乡下穷小子的身份当选高丽大学的学生会主席，让他能够以火箭的速度晋升为现代集团的社长，同样也是这个品质让他从国会议员、首尔市长，走到现在的大韩民国总统。缔造平民神话的不是李明博，而只是那位连小学都没毕业的母亲。

《小布什传》主要讲述了：年青时叛逆、放荡不羁，成家后笃信宗教、是个有责任感的好男从，就任总统后，果敢发起两场对外战争，成为21世纪美国仅次于林肯的最伟大总统，离任时却被目为美国历史上最糟糕的总统……——这就是小面什，一个独特、充满争议的总统！一个一生富于戏剧化转折的总统！

《美国总统》为读者呈现的第一张照片，是1858年林肯竞选和对手道格拉斯进行辩论的场景。1933年3月12日，罗斯福发表“炉边谈话”，开始针对当时的经济危机实施“新政”；1941年12月7日，日军偷袭珍珠港，罗斯福于次日下午签署了对日宣战的文件。 当星条旗在英军炮轰后的要塞上高高飘扬时，谁也不会想到，一个起初由13个殖民地建立起的美利坚合众国，会成为日后影响世界的超级大国。作为这个国家最有权威的人物一美国总统，从“美国之父”华盛顿到解放黑人奴隶的林肯，从二战中对法西斯宣战的罗斯福到支持冷战的肯尼迪，从实行“乒乓外交”的尼克松到怀有“无畏的梦想”的黑人奥巴马，在过去的200多年里，作为白宫的主人，他们以自己的方式主导和演绎着美国的历史。这里面，既有追求自由的坚韧，宣扬个性的率真，也有攫取利益的贪婪，称霸世界的野心…… 当我们合上此书的最后一页，回味思量之余，会忽然发现，呈现在我们面前的这些美国总统的画面，这些个性鲜明的“风云人物”，并不是一个个没有关联的个体，而是一部活生生的美国历史！

Book Description Publication Date: May 22, 2001 In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris "interest" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President. Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the year 1826. Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget. It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived. Amazon.com Review Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and anti-Federalist factions vied bitterly for power, introducing scandal into an administration beset by other difficulties--including pirates on the high seas, conflict with France and England, and all the public controversy attendant in building a nation. Overshadowed by the lustrous presidents Washington and Jefferson, who bracketed his tenure in office, Adams emerges from McCullough's brilliant biography as a truly heroic figure--not only for his significant role in the American Revolution but also for maintaining his personal integrity in its strife-filled aftermath. McCullough spends much of his narrative examining the troubled friendship between Adams and Jefferson, who had in common a love for books and ideas but differed on almost every other imaginable point. Reading his pages, it is easy to imagine the two as alter egos. (Strangely, both died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.) But McCullough also considers Adams in his own light, and the portrait that emerges is altogether fascinating. --Gregory McNamee From Publishers Weekly Here a preeminent master of narrative history takes on the most fascinating of our founders to create a benchmark for all Adams biographers. With a keen eye for telling detail and a master storyteller's instinct for human interest, McCullough (Truman; Mornings on Horseback) resurrects the great Federalist (1735-1826), revealing in particular his restrained, sometimes off-putting disposition, as well as his political guile. The events McCullough recounts are well-known, but with his astute marshaling of facts, the author surpasses previous biographers in depicting Adams's years at Harvard, his early public life in Boston and his role in the first Continental Congress, where he helped shape the philosophical basis for the Revolution. McCullough also makes vivid Adams's actions in the second Congress, during which he was the first to propose George Washington to command the new Continental Army. Later on, we see Adams bickering with Tom Paine's plan for government as suggested in Common Sense, helping push through the draft for the Declaration of Independence penned by his longtime friend and frequent rival, Thomas Jefferson, and serving as commissioner to France and envoy to the Court of St. James's. The author is likewise brilliant in portraying Adams's complex relationship with Jefferson, who ousted him from the White House in 1800 and with whom he would share a remarkable death date 26 years later: July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration. (June) Forecast: Joseph Ellis has shown us the Founding Fathers can be bestsellers, and S&S knows it has a winner: first printing is 350,000 copies, and McCullough will go on a 15-city tour; both Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club have taken this book as a selection.

本书勾勒了韩国总统朴正熙（1959—1978）的执政经历，从军事政变到遇刺身亡，朴正熙始终是一位有争议的铁腕总统。他不顾非议，强力推动各项改革，虽是军人政治，却懂让韩国借经济迅速腾飞，又懂外交—斡旋大国之间，独特领袖气质影响至今。

这是一个时空跨度很大的故事，这是一段规模宏大的历史。这本书讲述了政治、战争和社会问题，也讲述了有关人性、爱、宗教信仰、美德、野心、友谊和背叛的故事，还有真知灼见产生的一系列影响深远的后果。总而言之，约翰·亚当斯的一生是一个很吸引人、而且时常令人感到意外的故事，他是历史上最重要且最有魅力的美国人之一。