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2013年2月15日 星期五

談美國的總統學或教宗學等等




教皇辭職,羅馬教廷何去何從?
本篤十六世以身體為由辭職,成為600年來首位辭職的教皇。他的繼任者不僅將面對損害羅馬天主教會威信的性醜聞,還有歐洲日益世俗化及新教傳教運動的挑戰。


2年前我撰寫領導學時. 有部分章節牽涉到談美國的總統學---這方面我比較不滿意. 因為任何一位美國的總統 研究書籍都很多所以幾乎無法作"簡介"
今天是周末紐約時報有的美國的總統學相關資料如下諸書:

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

Abraham Lincoln

'Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism'

By JOHN BURT
Reviewed by STEVEN B. SMITH
In "Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism," John Burt highlights the difficulties Lincoln confronted in steering between philosophical principle and practical politics.
Calvin Coolidge

'Coolidge'

By AMITY SHLAES
Reviewed by JACOB HEILBRUNN
Amity Shlaes depicts Calvin Coolidge as a paragon of a president, less for what he did than for what he did not do.
Nixon and Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican convention.

'Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage'

By JEFFREY FRANK
Reviewed by JOE SCARBOROUGH
In "Ike and Dick," Jeffrey Frank writes about the strange relationship that would help shape America's foreign and domestic agenda for much of the 20th century.


National detective: Allan Pinkerton in 1862.

'The Hour of Peril'

By DANIEL STASHOWER
Reviewed by GREG TOBIN
How an early plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln was foiled.

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