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The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years

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作者：Haynes Johnson 著

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

出版时间：2001-10-01

I S B N：9780151004454

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PRAISE FORTHEBEST OF TIMES"Informed, balanced and . . . gripping. A vivid and reliable reminder of what we have been through."--The New York Times"Drawn with insight, care, and an excellent eye for detail . . . Johnson is among the most brilliant chroniclers of our times, and he scores again here."--The Boston Globe"A magnetic book that every thoughtful American will want to read."--Publishers Weekly"Beautifully written . . . As full of juicy tidbits as a cherry cake. [Johnson shows] how witty, perceptive and morally grown up American political journalism can be at its best."--The Economist--This text refers to the Paperbackedition.

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The Best of Times--the 90s were indeed the best of times. Unprecedented wealth and the breathtaking progress of science and technology ushered in the Internet and the deciphering of the genome. Promises abounded, but a deepening sense of unease hovered over America as the worst of times seemed to be upon us as well-gossip, scandal, and a frenzied media like nothing ever seen before. Based on exclusive interviews with the decade s most influential players, here is a fascinating re-creation of the best and worst episodes of the decade. With sweeping force and cultural acumen, Johnson revives the 90s, the ups and downs, filled with all that we may have forgotten and, most importantly, all that we never knew. In four fascinating parts, Johnson delivers the stories behind the stories-revealing the personalities behind the media party of the 90s, the partisanship that didn t succeed in bringing down the president, the pervasive technology that stretched from Silicon Valley to Monsanto with the corresponding hopes and fears, and the equally extreme reactions on Wall Street to every last bit of it. A tremendous work from a major authority and writer, The Best of Times covers the entire wonderful yet woeful decade, gavel to gavel.Includes interviews with:Book One: TechnotimesNathan Myhrvold, chief technology guru (former), MicrosoftDavid Baltimore, president, Cal Tech University and Nobel Prize winnerBob Shapiro, chief executive officer, Monsanto Regis McKenna, entrepreneurBook Two: TeletimesTed Harbert, head of TV programming, DreamWorks SKGNorman Lear, creator of "All in the Family"David Geffen, partner, DreamWorks SKGMichael Bloomberg, head of Bloomberg NewsSteven Brill, founder of Brill s ContentBook Three: Scandal TimesSam Dash, law professor, GeorgetownSenator Alan K. Simpson (former)Senator Dale Bumpers (former)Book Four: Millennial TimesSenator Bob Kerrey (former)Senator John McCainDr. Ruth Faden, medical ethicistIn addition, Johnson interviewed leaders of Congress, top White House aides, cabinet members, and prominent political operatives of both parties in gathering material for this history.A JAMES H. SILBERMAN BOOK

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Haynes Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestsellers Sleepwalking Through History and The Bay of Pigs. He is a regular television commentator on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and lives in Washington, D.C.