
奠基者
Founding Brothers
Joseph J. Ellis · 初版 2000 年
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在这部具有里程碑意义的历史著作中,曾获美国国家图书奖的 American Sphinx 作者探讨了一群才华横溢却又存在深层缺陷的人物——汉密尔顿、伯尔、杰斐逊、富兰克林、华盛顿、亚当斯和麦迪逊——如何直面眼前的重重艰难挑战,从而奠定了我们国家的发展航向。1790年的美国,与其说是一个现实,不如说是一份脆弱的希望。在随后的十年里,这些建国先勋——在本书中被重新审视并称为“建国兄弟”——将《独立宣言》的理想与宪法的内涵相结合,创造出了切实可行的运行机制
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约瑟夫·J·埃利斯的《阁下》(His Excellency)写得极好。强烈推荐。埃利斯的《奠基者:独立时代的巨人们》(Founding Brothers)也写得非常好(而且很短)。大卫·麦卡洛有好几部非常精彩的美国史著作,包括《约翰·亚当斯》、《1776》、《莱特兄弟》、《两海之间之路》。
His Excellency, by Joseph J. Ellis, is very good. I strongly recommend it. Founding Brothers, by Ellis, is also very good (and short). David McCullough has several tremendous US history books, including John Adams, 1776, The Wright Brothers, The Path Between the Seas.
约瑟夫·J·埃利斯在他的书《奠基者:革命的一代》(Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation)中提出,直到 19 世纪 10 年代和 20 年代,美国人才开始为这个国家的起源争论不休,并越来越倾向于把 1776 年 7 月 4 日定为……
Joseph J. Ellis, in his book "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation", makes the case that it wasn't till the 1810s and 1820s that Americans began to argue about the origins of the country, and increasingly settle upon July 4th, 1776, as the…
……害怕放任美国分裂会给全世界的民主带来沉重打击。林肯在葛底斯堡演说中极其雄辩地表达了这种担忧。历史学家约瑟夫·埃利斯说过(我记得是在他的《奠基者》一书里),我们现在把民主视为自由主义政治的必然结果,但这种观念直到美国内战后才真正形成。(这甚至都没提纵容奴隶制延续在道德上的可怖之处……
…afraid that letting the US fall apart would deal a blow to democracy everywhere. Lincoln so eloquently voices this concern in the Gettysburg Address. Historian Joseph Ellis said (I think in his book "Founding Brothers") that we now take democracy as the inevitable conclusion of liberalizing politics but that formed only after the US Civil War. (This also doesn't address the moral horror of allowing slavery to continue…