Relive the extraordinary Presidency of Barack Obama through White House photographer Pete Souza's behind-the-scenes images and stories--some published here for the first time--with a foreword from the President himself.
During Barack Obama's two terms, Pete Souza was with the President during more crucial moments than anyone else--and he photographed them all. Souza captured nearly two million photographs of President Obama, in moments highly classified and disarmingly candid.
Obama: An Intimate Portrait reproduces more than 300 of Souza's most iconic photographs with fine-art print quality in an oversize collectible format. Together they document the most consequential hours of the Presidency--including the historic image of President Obama and his advisors in the Situation Room during the bin Laden mission--alongside unguarded moments with the President's family, his encounters with children, interactions with world leaders and cultural figures, and more.
Souza's photographs, with the behind-the-scenes captions and stories that accompany them, communicate the pace and power of our nation's highest office. They also reveal the spirit of the extraordinary man who became our President. We see President Obama lead our nation through monumental challenges, comfort us in calamity and loss, share in hard-won victories, and set a singular example to "be kind and be useful," as he would instruct his daughters.
This book puts you in the White House with President Obama, and will be a treasured record of a landmark era in American history.

一部记述伊拉克战争前后美国情势的纪录片。美国因何成为恐怖分子的袭击目标？为何乐于卷入战争？乔治布什的政策与9•11事件的爆发有何联系？而他和本•拉登之间关系怎样演变至宿敌？片中用真实的历史场景，从某个侧面提供了一种解读方式。
除了关注美国国内，镜头也对准了伊拉克战场。厌倦了战争的美国士兵、被耻笑的伊拉克俘虏、饱受战乱之苦的当地人民，人人都在这场战争遭受着不同的痛苦和煎熬。美军家中的善良母亲，准备去前线服役的热血青年，都对布什的政策、对伊拉克战争，开始沉重的思考。

赖纳•文格尔（Jürgen Vogel 饰）是德国某所高中的老师，该学校正在进行“国家体制”的主题活动周。由于他最喜欢的“无政府主义”课被另一位老师捷足先登，因此他只能主讲“独裁统治”课程。
对于自由散漫的学生们来说，任何课程都只是为了学分而上。他们在课上大声聊天，无心听讲。文格尔别出心裁提出假想“独裁”的实验。在为期一周的实验中，文格尔被置于至高无上的地位，学生们对他要绝对服从。从最初的玩乐心态，这些青年男女渐渐沉湎这个名为“浪潮”的组织中，他们体会到集体和纪律的重要性，却在不知不觉中滑向了“独裁”与“纳粹”的深渊……
本片根据真实事件改编，并荣获2008年德国电影杰出剧情片和最佳男配角奖（Frederick Lau）。

这本书主要探讨群众运动的一些共有特征，重点是陷入狂热的乌合之众的人格。长期与下层民众打交道的生活经历使作者发现，积极投身群众运动的往往是一些失意者。他们认为自己的生活已无可救药地失败，渴望逃离自我寻求重生，将生命托付给某项神圣伟业让他们感觉不错，整齐划一的集体生活令个人的责任、恐惧、无能得以掩埋。运动的领导者则刻意培养参与者的罪恶感，号召自我牺牲以获救赎。
自1951年出版后，《狂热分子》即被视为社会科学领域的经典之作，短期内行销50万册以上，被译成10余种语言，是多所大学政治系的必读书。书中俯拾皆是充满智慧的思想火花与一针见血的比喻，风格酷似法国思想家蒙田与帕斯卡尔的随笔。至今，其佳言警句仍不断被引用、辑录。