《美國研究讀本（第二輯）》從美國國內政治、外交政策、經濟發展、社會與文化四個方面介紹美國進入21世紀以來發生的重大變化。9·11事件、阿富汗戰爭、伊拉克戰爭、2008 年開始的世界金融和經濟危機、布希主義、巧實力，以及美國國內面臨的個人權利與國家安全、大政府與減少政府干預、自由主義與保守主義、紅與藍之間的多種矛盾，還有失業、非法移民等社會問題，所有這些使得今日之美國已非20世紀90年代的美國。了解與把握這些變化，進行理性的、客觀的分析，這是從事美國研究的學者與學生所必須做的。
基本介紹
- 中文名：高等學校英語專業系列教材:美國研究讀本
- 外文名：American Studies Reader(Volume 2)
- 作者：梅仁毅
- 出版社：外語教學與研究出版社
- 頁數：525 頁
- 開本：16 開
- 品牌：外語教學與研究出版社
- 類型：人文社科
- 出版日期：2012年10月1日
- 語種：簡體中文, 英語
- ISBN：7513524793, 9787513524797
內容簡介,圖書目錄,
內容簡介
《新經典·高等學校英語專業系列教材:美國研究讀本(第2輯)》提供的是美國的基本框架，是一些長久起作用的原則。《新經典·高等學校英語專業系列教材:美國研究讀本(第2輯)》提供的是變化中的美國的一些突出方面，具有動態性質。因為美國研究不僅需要了解一些本質性的東西，也需要了解這些東西在當今的現實中是如何表現的，這就是與時俱進。
圖書目錄
Part Ⅰ American Domestic Politics
Chapter I American Respore to 9/11 Terrorist Attack
1.How 9/11 Should Be Remembered
2.The Citizer
3.Amid the Chaos,Extraordinary Choices
4.Americar Seek Comfort in Patriotism
5.Feeling the Tug of a Wounded Land
6.In Pads,a Flood of Sympathy and Aid
7.In for the Long Haul
8.For America,a Modem Pearl Harbor
9.Congress Backs Bush on Emergency Aid
10.Bush Is Standing Tall,and Congress Likes It
11.9/11 Annive ary:From Empire to Decline
12.The Shadow of 9/11 across America
13.From Hyperpower to Declining Power
Chapter Ⅱ The Politics of Fear:The PATRIOT Act
1.How the USA PATRIOT Act Undermines Our Civil Liberties
2.Democrats and Republicar Sell Out to Pass PATRIOT Act
3.Senate Votes to Expand Spy Power
4.The Edifice of Repression
5.Free Speech,R.I.P.
6.At JFK Airport,Denying Basic Rights Is Just Another Day at the Office
7.Culture of Fear:Poetry Professor Becomes Terror Suspect
8.Inevitably,the Politics of Terror
Chapter Ⅲ 2004 & 2008 Presidential Electior
1.Facts of United States Presidential Election,2004
2.Fear in the Voting Booth:The 2004 Presidential Election
3.Facts of United States Presidential Election,2008
4.Gallup's Quick Read on the Election
5.Change and the 2008 American Presidential Election
6.Obama's Election Redraws America's Electoral Divide
Chapter Ⅳ American Congress and Foreign Policy
1.When Congress Checks Out
2.When Congress Stops War
3.Congress and the Making of US Foreign Policy
Chapter Ⅴ Post-g/11 American Court
1.In Steps Big and Small,Supreme Court Moved Right
2.Court under Roberts Is Most Corervative in Decades
3.Appeals Courts Pushed to Right by Bush Choices
4.The Federalist War of Ideas
5.Court Immunity?
6.Supreme Court to Bush:You Are Not above the Law
7.Topics at a Glance:The Supreme Court
8.Senate Confirms Kagan as Justice in Partisan Vote
Chapter Ⅵ The Israel Lobby
1.Reporter Retires after Words about Israel
2.Helen Thomas and the Rights of Abhorrent Speech
3.The Sad Farewell of Helen Thomas
4.76 Senator Sign on to Israel Letter
5.Biden:Israel Right to Stop Gaza Flotilla from Breaking Blockade
6.Backlash over Book on Policy for Israel
7.The Storm over the Israel Lobby
8.The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Part Ⅱ American Foreign Policy
Chapter Ⅶ The Bush Doctrine.
1.Undertanding the Bush Doctrine
2.Three Cheer for the Bush Doctrine
3.Think Again:Bush's Foreign Policy
4.President George W.Bush Deliver Graduation Speech at West Point
Chapter Ⅷ The Iraq War
1.George W.Bush's Remarks at the United Natio General Assembly
2.George W.Bush's Address on the Start of War
3.America Demortrate for,agairt War
4.Casualties,Cost,and Other Corequences
5.US Government Policy:The Current Situation and How It Evolved
6.Barack Obama:Operation Iraqi Freedom Is Over
Chapter Ⅸ Obama's Foreign Policy
1.Six Sigr That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End
2.Smart Power:A Converation with Leaderhip Expert Joseph S.Nye,Jr.
3.Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relatior
4.The US National Security Strategy,2010
5.America's Pacific Century
6.Obama Puts His Own Mark on Foreign Policy Issues
7.The Obama Doctrine:Making a Virtue of Necessity
8.America:Once Engaged,Now Ready to Lead
Chapter Ⅹ Neoco ervatism
1.The Big Question:What Is Neoco ervatism,and How Influential Is It Today?
2.Neocon 101:What Do Neocorervatives Believe?
3.How Neocorervatives Conquered Washington-and Launched a War
4.Har Morgenthau and the Iraq War:Realism vs.Neocorervatism
5.9/1 I's 10th Annive ary:The Death of Neocorervatism
Part Ⅲ American Economy
Chapter XI The Financial Crisis
1.The Great Crash,2008:A Geopolitical Setback for the West
2.The Great Recession:America Becomes Thrift Nation
3.How to Get out of the Financial Crisis
4.Trarforming the American Economy through Innovation
Chapter Ⅻ American Energy Policy
1.Addicted to Oil:Strategic Implicatior of American Oil Policy
2.Think Again:Energy Independence
3.Reliable,Affordable,and Environmentally Sound Energy for America's Future
4.Real Prospects for Energy Efficiency in the United States
5.Green Fairy Tales:Obama's Energy Plan
Chapter ⅩⅢ Environmental Policy
1.The Era of Base Politics
2.Bush Policies Have Been Good to Energy Industry
3.Bush vs.the Laureates:How Science Became a Partisan Issue
4.Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming
Part Ⅳ American Society and Culture
Chapter XIV Social Mood
l.Center-Left America?
2.Special Report:Ideologically,Where Is the US Moving?
3.Voter Rate Political Parties' Ideologies
4.The Very Separate World of Corervative Republicar
Chapter ⅩⅤ Post-9/11 American Society
1.The United States in 2005:The Impact of the Last Quarter Century
2.The Critical Unraveling of US Society
3.The Widening Gap in America's Two Tiered Society
4.For Elderly in Rural Areas,Times Are Distinctly Harder
5.Did You Know 200,000 Vets Are Sleeping on the Streets?
6.Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million,USDA Says
7.Living on Nothing but Food Stamps
8.2007 Executive Excess:The Staggering Social Cost of US Business Leaderhip
9.More Americar Say US a Nation of Haves and Have-Nots
Chapter ⅩⅥ Immigration
1.The Closing of the American Border
2.In Focus:The Immigration Debate
3.Across the US,Growing Rallies for Immigration
4.When I See This,I See Strength
5.Producing Smaller Number,but Laying Claim to Majority
6.May Day:The Fight behind the Protest
7.America's Immigration Quandary
8.Poll Shows Most in the US Want Overhaul of Immigration Laws
9.Arizona Governor Sigr Immigration Bill,Reopening National Debate
10.Debate over Arizona Immigration Law Comes to US Court
11.Governor Voice Grave Concerr on Immigration
12.Arizona Ruling Acts as a Warning to Other States
Chapter ⅩⅦ American Political Blog
1.An Introduction to Blog
2.Becoming a Force
3.Weblogs:A New Source of News
4.American Political Blogs
5.Organizing without an Organization:The Obama Network Revolution
