jay.winik 简介

作者简介: Jay Winik is the author of the New York Times bestseller April 1865. He is a senior scholar of history and public policy at the University of Maryland and a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He lives in Chevy Chase.

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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile脆弱的 America teetered摇摆不定 on the brink边缘 of oblivion隐没, Russia towered屹立 as a vast巨大的 imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional惯例的 histories tell it, none of these remarkable卓越的 events occurred in isolation.

Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully技艺娴熟的 illuminates阐明 how their fates 命运combined in one extraordinary特别的 moment to change the course of civilization. A sweeping广泛的, magisterial威风的 drama featuring特征的 the richest cast of characters ever to walk upon the world stage, including Washington, Jefferson, Louis XVI路易十六, Robespierre,罗伯斯庇尔 and Catherine the Great凯萨琳大帝（德意志）, The Great Upheaval is a gripping扣人心弦的, epic portrait 人物刻画of this tumultuous混乱的 decade that will forever transform the way we see America's beginnings and our world.

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\"In this masterful book, Jay Winik sheds new light on a tumultuous decade rife with lessons for today.\"

--Walter Isaacson

About Jay Winik

Jay Winik, one of the nation's leading historians, is renowned for

his gifted and creative approaches to history. He is the author of The New York Times and #1 bestseller April 1865 (2001), which received wide international acclaim and became an award-wining documentary on the History Channel, watched by 20 million viewers.

One of those rare books to be considered an instant classic, and frequently described by readers as “one of the best works of history” they’ve ever read, April 1865 was chosen by the New York Public Library for its prestigious “Books to Remember 2001,” awarded to the year’s most “exceptional fiction and nonfiction titles.” It was also the recipient of the first Walt Whitman Civil War Roundtable Award in 2002.

A regular contributor for history to The Wall Street Journal, Winik’s writing

also appears frequently in The New York Times and The Washington Post. A frequent television and radio guest, he also regularly appears in major historical documentaries on the History Channel. Previously, he had a distinguished government career in foreign policy that put him in the thick of civil wars around the globe, from the former Yugoslavia to El Salvador, Nicaragua and Cambodia, including helping to create the landmark United Nations Plan to end Cambodia’s civil war. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and is a Senior Scholar of History and Public Policy at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. He is on the governing council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and serves as a trustee on a number of other non-profit boards having to do with history, preservation, and education. He lives with his family in Chevy Chase, MD.

Winik has an intense, passionate, and enthusiastic reader base who have long been eagerly awaiting The Great Upheaval. His readers and fans include a wide cross-section of America, including George Lucas, Quincy Jones, the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, President Bill Clinton, Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, presidential candidate John Edwards, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, baseball star Mike Piazza, and Senate leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell.

Six years in the making and a herculean research challenge, The Great Upheaval is the first book to weave together a global narrative of the crucial period of the 1790s. Winik combed documents and sources from multiple languages across three continents, in America, France, and Russia, to create an entirely new

picture of America’s formative years - both their perils and possibilities - as well as a stunningly fresh new picture of the modern world.

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\"Epic and vivid. His ambitious triple play – weaving together the stories of Russia, America, and France – offers a fresh take on the era, and his enthusiasm gives readers a treat. Winik strips away the patina of mythology to reveal the contradictions and internal battles that make historical figures so intriguing.”

– Christian Science Monitor on The Great Upheaval

\"Winik is a master of character study and a born storyteller. The cast of characters is a veritable gallery of greats.