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Nothing Like It In The World
Stephen E. Ambrose · 初版 2000 年
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“Nothing Like It in the World 讲述了修筑横贯大陆铁路的建设者们的故事——那些拿自己的身家产业冒险的投资者；那些明辨其重要性的开明政客；那些冒着生命危险乃至牺牲生命的工程师与测量员；还有爱尔兰与中国劳工、战败的邦联士兵，以及在铁轨上从事繁重危险劳作的其他工人们。”——书封介绍。
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……写道在整个审判过程中，标准石油的市场份额一直在稳步下降，洛克菲勒根本无法遏制这种颓势。书中对这种矛盾现象没有任何解释。关于这点，安布罗斯的《Nothing Like It In The World》提供了一个截然不同的视角。这本书讲的是第一条横贯大陆铁路的修建。安布罗斯在书里写道，他原本完全认同传统观点，但在为这本书做调研时，发现的一切彻底颠覆了他的……
…wrote that throughout the trial, Standard Oil's market share steadily declined and Rockefeller was unable to stem the retreat. There was no explanation of the discrepancy. A different take on this is "Nothing Like It In The World" by Ambrose. It's about the building of the first continental railroad. Ambrose writes in it that he fully embraced the conventional view of it, but his research for the book turned everything on its…
……不幸的是，他叙述的事实和他的结论自相矛盾。读完之后，欢迎你回来指教指教我，洛克菲勒那个时代的石油行业到底有多“高度受监管”。另一本神作是安布罗斯的《Nothing Like It In The World》。安布罗斯一开始也带着常见的左翼偏见切入这个话题，但他的调研彻底推翻了自己的叙事。与切尔诺不同的是，他对自己转变的过程写了一篇诚恳的自我剖析……
…Unfortunately, his narrative facts contradict his conclusions. After you've read it, come back and enlighten me on how "highly regulated" the oil business was in Rockefeller's days. Another gem is "Nothing Like It In The World" by Ambrose. Ambrose also approached the topic with the usual left-wing bias, but his research completely upended his narrative. Unlike Chernow, he wrote a nice mea culpa about his transformation engendered…
……铁路把人带到了一片几万年前就已经被新石器时代人类成功定居的土地上。在铁路修成之前，人们就是这么想的。参考斯蒂芬·安布罗斯的《Nothing Like It In the World》：https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Like-World-Transcontinental-1...
…railroad was bringing people to a land that was already successfully settled by neolithic peoples tens of thousands of years earlier. That's what people thought before the railroad was completed. See "Nothing Like It In the World" by Stephen Ambrose: https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Like-World-Transcontinental-1...
啥？你在逗我吗？去读一本关于铁路的书吧——那正是我所说情况的绝佳例子。斯蒂芬·安布罗斯的《Nothing Like it In The World》读起来很快，而且完全印证了我的观点。铁路公司是大片大片获批政府赠予的土地——他们可没花钱买。那是19世纪的事，那20世纪的复兴又怎么说……
WHAT? Are you kidding me? Go read a book on the railroads - that is a prime example of exactly what I'm talking about. Nothing Like it In The World by Stephan Ambrose is a quick read and covers my point. The railroads were granted the land tracts by the government - they didn't buy it. That was in the 19th century, what about the 20th century resurection…
我真该整理个书单，不过先再推荐几本吧：斯蒂芬·安布罗斯的《Nothing Like It In The World》（1863-1869年建造横贯大陆铁路的人们）、尼尔·弗格森的《The Pity of War》（解读第一次世界大战）、沃尔特·艾萨克森的《Steve Jobs》、昆汀的《The Wright Brothers as Engineers》……
I really should do a list, but here's a few more: "Nothing Like It In The World" Stephen Ambrose The men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863-1869 "The Pity of War" Niall Ferguson Explaining World War 1 "Steve Jobs" Walter Isaacson "The Wright Brothers as Engineers" Quentin…
……凭空而来（完全没有任何摆出来的事实支持）。我怀疑他一开始接手这个项目时，脑子里就带着大众对洛克菲勒那种脸谱化的邪恶刻板印象，而且怎么也摆脱不掉。对比一下安布罗斯讲第一条横贯大陆铁路的《Nothing Like It In The World》。他在书里说，自己起初对铁路和相关人员也抱有极其负面的常规看法，但在做了调研之后不得不……
…of nowhere (being unjustified by the facts presented). I suspected that he'd come into the project with the popular evil caricature of Rockefeller, and couldn't shake it. Contrast that with Ambose's "Nothing Like It In The World" about the first intercontinental railroad. In it he says he started with the usual extremely negative view of the railroad and the people involved with it, but after doing the research was forced to…