?Bold and politically incorrect, An Autumn of War is like
a breath of fresh air in pointing to the real causes of terrorist
outrages and the need for a decisive response.? ?Richard Pipes,
author of The Russian Revolution
?Victor Hanson is a national treasure. No one has written with such
great prescience about the present war or more accurately predicted
the course of events, on the fighting front, at home, and around
the world. His wisdom arises from a deep knowledge and
understanding o
內容簡介:
On September 11, 2001, hours after the terrorist attacks on
New York and Washington, the eminent military historian Victor
Davis Hanson wrote an article in which he asserted that the United
States, like it or not, was now at war and had the moral right to
respond with force. An Autumn of War, which opens with that
first essay, will stimulate readers across the political spectrum
to think more deeply about the attacks, the war, and their lessons
for all of us.
關於作者:
Victor Davis Hanson was educated at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, and the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens, and received his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford
University. He farmed full-time for five years before returning to
academia in 1984 to initiate a Classics program at California State
University, Fresno. Currently, he is Professor of Classics there
and Coordinator of the Classical Studies Program.
Hanson has written articles, editorials, and reviews for the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, International
Herald Tribune, American Heritage, City Journal, American
Spectator, National Review, Policy Review, The Wilson Quarterly,
The Weekly Standard, and Washington Times, and has been
interviewed on numerous occasions on National Public Radio and the
BBC, and appeared with David Gergen on The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer. He writes a biweekly column about contemporary culture
and military history for National Review Online.
He is also the author of some eighty scholarly articles, book
reviews, and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military
history, and contemporary culture. He has written or edited eleven
books, including The Western Way of War, The Soul of Battle,
and Carnage and Culture. He lives and works with his wife
and three children on their forty-acre tree and vine farm near
Selma, California, where he was born in 1953.