Abe Lincoln in His Times David Reynolds 英文原版 亚伯 林肯时代
大卫·S·雷诺兹是纽约城市大学研究生中心的一位杰出教授。他是沃尔特·惠特曼的美国文化传记的作者，班克罗夫特奖和大使图书奖的获得者。他的其他作品包括《美国文艺复兴之下》(克里斯蒂安·高斯奖得主)、《废奴主义者约翰·布朗》、《比剑更强大:汤姆叔叔的小屋》和《为美国而战》。他是《纽约书评》、《纽约时报书评》和《华尔街日报》的定期书评人。
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作者David S. Reynolds
出版社Penguin USA
ISBN9781594206047
出版时间2020-09
印刷时间2020-09
印数1千册
装帧精装
开本18开
纸张轻型纸
页数1088页
字数1千字
定价370元
上书时间2022-02-18
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大卫·S·雷诺兹是曾获班克罗夫特文学奖(Bancroft prize)的沃尔特·惠特曼(Walt Whitman)文化传记的作者，以及其他许多19世纪美国历史上的标志性作品的作者。权威传记《亚伯》是对美国内战前几十年动荡生活的全面了解的产物。
这是一个成长与分裂并存的国家，民主的流行文化反映了这个国家的矛盾。爱默生、惠特曼和其他预言一个来自西部的新人将会出现来平衡南北的人认为林肯的血统是有利的。林肯的父亲是新英格兰的清教徒血统，母亲是弗吉尼亚的骑士贵族，他与那个时代的核心冲突有着血缘关系。雷诺兹表示，他一生中一个永恒的主题就是他在对立力量之间取得平衡的天赋。林肯没有接受过正规的教育，但却有着不可抑制的自我完善的渴望，他在摔跤和下流笑话方面的天赋让他在同龄人中很受欢迎，即使他对诗歌的爱好和惊人的记忆能力让他在童年、当律师的那些年以及从政的过程中都与他们不同。
没有人能超越时代的限制，林肯也不例外。但从雷诺兹大师的计算中可以看出，他在人生的每一个阶段都比其他人拥有更开阔的视野，除了那些最开明的同龄人。作为一名政治家，他的行动对一些人来说太慢，对许多人来说太快，但他总是在铭记整个国家的同时推动正义。当然，安倍在内战中达到了顶峰，那是对林肯和他深爱的国家的决定性考验。雷诺兹向我们展示了林肯获得的不同寻常的文化知识，当他形成了一个真正的联邦的愿景，用马丁·路德·金的话说，“把我们国家刺耳的不和谐转变成兄弟情谊的美丽交响曲。”
亚伯拉罕·林肯不是凭空冒出来的。但是，如果说他是被他所处的时代塑造的，那么在他生命中决定性的时刻，他也设法以很少有人能预见到的程度塑造了这些时代。最终，这是一部至今仍震撼着我们的大戏，阿部给我们带来了鲜活生动的生活。衡量这种生活将永远是我们美国教育的一部分。
David S. Reynolds, author of the Bancroft Prize-winning cultural biography of Walt Whitman and many other iconic works of nineteenth century American history, understands the currents in which Abraham Lincoln swam as well as anyone alive. His magisterial biography Abe is the product of full-body immersion into the riotous tumult of American life in the decades before the Civil War.
It was a country growing up and being pulled apart at the same time, with a democratic popular culture that reflected the country's contradictions. Lincoln's lineage was considered auspicious by Emerson, Whitman, and others who prophesied that a new man from the West would emerge to balance North and South. From New England Puritan stock on his father's side and Virginia Cavalier gentry on his mother's, Lincoln was linked by blood to the central conflict of the age. And an enduring theme of his life, Reynolds shows, was his genius for striking a balance between opposing forces. Lacking formal schooling but with an unquenchable thirst for self-improvement, Lincoln had a talent for wrestling and bawdy jokes that made him popular with his peers, even as his appetite for poetry and prodigious gifts for memorization set him apart from them through his childhood, his years as a lawyer, and his entrance into politics.
No one can transcend the limitations of their time, and Lincoln was no exception. But what emerges from Reynolds's masterful reckoning is a man who at each stage in his life managed to arrive at a broader view of things than all but his most enlightened peers. As a politician, he moved too slowly for some and too swiftly for many, but he always pushed toward justice while keeping the whole nation in mind. Abe culminates, of course, in the Civil War, the defining test of Lincoln and his beloved country. Reynolds shows us the extraordinary range of cultural knowledge Lincoln drew from as he shaped a vision of true union, transforming, in Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, "the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood."
Abraham Lincoln did not come out of nowhere. But if he was shaped by his times, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that Abe brings to fresh and vivid life. The measure of that life will always be part of our American education.
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