作者 : Jack Kerouac 出版社: Penguin Classics 出版年: 2000-2 页数: 320 定价: GBP 8.99 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780141182674 内容简介 On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. 作者简介 杰克 凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac, 1922-1969），1922年3月12日，凯鲁亚克出生于马萨诸塞州洛厄尔，父母为法裔美国人，他是家中幼子。他曾在当地天主教和公立学校就读，以橄榄球奖学金入纽约哥伦比亚大学，结识爱伦 金斯堡、威廉 巴勒斯和尼尔 卡萨迪等 垮掉的一代 。

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From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships withwomen, both personal and political. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote thewords “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortablewith woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for thefounding father's youthful misogyny, beginning with his awkwardcourtship of Rebecca Burwell, who declined Jefferson's marriageproposal, and his unwelcome advances toward the wife of a boyhoodfriend. Subsequent chapters describe his decade-long marriage toMartha Wayles Skelton, his flirtation with Maria Cosway, and thestill controversial relationship with Sally Hemings. A rivetingstudy of a complex man, Mr. Jefferson's Women is sure tospark debate.

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