Erik Larson’s latest work of narrative nonfiction is DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, which became an immediate New York Times bestseller. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing, and lingered on various NYT best-seller lists for the better part of a decade. Hulu plans to adapt the book for a limited TV series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. Erik’s IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, about America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature film.
His next book, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A SAGA OF CHURCHILL, FAMILY, AND DEFIANCE DURING THE BLITZ, due out in early spring 2020, is a story of geopolitical brinksmanship during Churchill’s first year as prime minister, but also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country house, Chequers, and his “full-moon home,” Ditchley, where Churchill, his family, and his “Secret Circle” convene when the moon is in its brightest phases and the bombing threat is highest.
Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist and author of the nonfiction memoir, ALMOST HOME, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations and professions.
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally--that she was willing to fight to the end.
##John Lee作為朗讀者,給這本書增添瞭不少色彩。有聲書末尾丘吉爾的演講更是加重瞭曆史感。雖然知道事件發生的來龍去脈,但是這個故事似乎著重於人物刻畫,所以更加接地氣。
評分##“When I look back on the perils which have been overcome, upon the great mountain waves in which the gallant ship has driven, when I remember all that has gone wrong, and remember also all that has gone right, I feel sure we have no need to fear the tempest. Let it roar, and let it rage. We shall come through” - W. Churchill
評分 評分##第一次聽有聲書,覺得這本太閤適瞭——既是很平實的曆史又有戲劇性,而且朗讀得非常好,把丘吉爾輕微的lisping都學齣來瞭。最後附上1941年美國參戰後丘吉爾在白宮的演講錄音,也是平時看書不會有的彩蛋。至於內容,曆史部分非常淺顯(也因此很適閤聽),有趣的是丘吉爾和他身邊的人的性格和日常,以及Blitz的陰影下不懈的生活,這就是標題中的 the splendid
評分##喜歡指點江山的可以讀一下,我等貧下中農就不讀瞭,喜馬拉雅上有penguin audio
評分 評分 評分 評分##好看好看好看!隻講瞭一年的曆史,但密度很大,丘吉爾身邊大到軍事計劃小到秘書的戀愛史都提到瞭。雖然很長字體很小,讀得不輕鬆,但寫得非常有畫麵感,曆史和當事人的感想穿插,有層次深度。
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