…terms of it's emotional content, say, compared to 90s west coast hip hop. (See also moana, the lyrics in that are very tell-not-show). For a more intelligent fictionalisation of that era, I recommend Burr, by Gore Vidal.
……读。它带我入了历史小说这个大门类。克拉韦尔（Clavell）的《亚洲风云》（Asian Saga）系列其他几部也挺不错，除了《外人》（Gai-jin）可能差点意思。我也很喜欢读戈尔·维达尔“帝国叙事”（Narratives of the Empire）系列里的《林肯》（Lincoln）和《伯尔》（Burr）——非常引人入胜，绝非千篇一律的传记式刻画。
…read. It got me started on the whole historical fiction genre. The rest of the books in Clavell's Asian Saga are pretty good too except for maybe Gai-jin. I also enjoyed reading Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr from his Narratives of the Empire series - very entertaining and definitely not run-of-the-mill biographic portrayals.
……《艾凡赫》（Ivanhoe）——乔治·艾略特的《罗慕拉》（Romola）——亨利克·显克微支的《你往何处去》（Quo Vadis）——布尔沃-利顿的《庞贝城的末日》（Last days of Pompeii）——伊夫林·沃的《海伦娜》（Helena）——阿纳托尔·法朗士的《诸神渴了》（God's are athirst）——托尔斯泰的《战争与和平》（War and Peace）——戈尔·维达尔的《伯尔》（Burr），还有其他一些。
…Ivanhoe -George Eliot's Romola -Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis -Bulwer Lytton's Last days of Pompeii -Evelyn Waugh's Helena -Anatole France's God's are athirst. -Tolstoy's War and Peace -Gore Vidal's Burr and also some of the others.
Chernow 对他笔下的人物是不是有点过于推崇了？比如 Gore Vidal 对华盛顿、杰斐逊、汉密尔顿和艾伦·伯尔（Aaron Burr）的看法就讽刺得多。我推荐 Gore Vidal 的《Burr》，以伯尔为核心视角展现了美国建国初期的诸多历史。
Isn't Chernow a bit too referential towards his subject? Gore Vidal for example has much more cynical view of George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton and Aaron Burr. I recommend Gore Vidal's "Burr", an account a lot of the early days of the US with Burr as the focal point.
I think they are just about middling historical fiction, compared to War and Peace or even Ivanhoe or Gore Vidal's novels about American History like Burr.
……就其情感内容而言，比如和 90 年代西海岸嘻哈相比。（也可以参考《海洋奇缘》（Moana），那里的歌词非常偏向“告知而非展现”（tell-not-show））。如果想要对那个时代更具智慧的虚构呈现，我推荐戈尔·维达尔（Gore Vidal）的《伯尔》（Burr）。
…terms of it's emotional content, say, compared to 90s west coast hip hop. (See also moana, the lyrics in that are very tell-not-show). For a more intelligent fictionalisation of that era, I recommend Burr, by Gore Vidal.
……读。它带我入了历史小说这个大门类。克拉韦尔（Clavell）的《亚洲风云》（Asian Saga）系列其他几部也挺不错，除了《外人》（Gai-jin）可能差点意思。我也很喜欢读戈尔·维达尔“帝国叙事”（Narratives of the Empire）系列里的《林肯》（Lincoln）和《伯尔》（Burr）——非常引人入胜，绝非千篇一律的传记式刻画。
…read. It got me started on the whole historical fiction genre. The rest of the books in Clavell's Asian Saga are pretty good too except for maybe Gai-jin. I also enjoyed reading Gore Vidal's Lincoln and Burr from his Narratives of the Empire series - very entertaining and definitely not run-of-the-mill biographic portrayals.
……《艾凡赫》（Ivanhoe）——乔治·艾略特的《罗慕拉》（Romola）——亨利克·显克微支的《你往何处去》（Quo Vadis）——布尔沃-利顿的《庞贝城的末日》（Last days of Pompeii）——伊夫林·沃的《海伦娜》（Helena）——阿纳托尔·法朗士的《诸神渴了》（God's are athirst）——托尔斯泰的《战争与和平》（War and Peace）——戈尔·维达尔的《伯尔》（Burr），还有其他一些。
…Ivanhoe -George Eliot's Romola -Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis -Bulwer Lytton's Last days of Pompeii -Evelyn Waugh's Helena -Anatole France's God's are athirst. -Tolstoy's War and Peace -Gore Vidal's Burr and also some of the others.
Chernow 对他笔下的人物是不是有点过于推崇了？比如 Gore Vidal 对华盛顿、杰斐逊、汉密尔顿和艾伦·伯尔（Aaron Burr）的看法就讽刺得多。我推荐 Gore Vidal 的《Burr》，以伯尔为核心视角展现了美国建国初期的诸多历史。
Isn't Chernow a bit too referential towards his subject? Gore Vidal for example has much more cynical view of George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton and Aaron Burr. I recommend Gore Vidal's "Burr", an account a lot of the early days of the US with Burr as the focal point.
我觉得跟《战争与和平》、甚至《艾凡赫》或者戈尔·维达尔写美国历史的小说（如《伯尔》）比起来，它们顶多算中等水准的历史小说。
I think they are just about middling historical fiction, compared to War and Peace or even Ivanhoe or Gore Vidal's novels about American History like Burr.
戈尔·维达尔写过一本关于他生平的有趣小说，书名叫《伯尔》（Burr）。
There is entertaining novel by Gore Vidal on his life, titled "Burr".