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Extraction code: zesl Title: Glory and Dream
Author: [America] William Manchester
Translator: Translation Group, British and American Research Office, Guangdong International Studies University
Douban score: 8.9
Press: Hainan Publishing House Sanhuan Publishing House
Publication year: February 2004
Page count: 997
Content introduction:
This book is a dynastic history of the United States, which outlines the panorama of American political, economic, cultural and social life during the forty years from before and after President Roosevelt took office in 1932 to the Watergate Incident during President Nixon's term in 1972. This is a historical masterpiece with grand scenes and delicate descriptions. The author pays special attention to and narrates the disputes and internal differences between the two parties in the whole process from the birth to the end of successive American administrations in the past 40 years, paying special attention to every major event experienced by the whole world at this stage; At the same time, it describes in detail everything that has happened in the world during these forty years, especially things related to the United States. From the wave of "Compensation Army", the Great Depression, the presidential election, World War II, the atomic bombing, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the assassination of Kennedy, and the Nixon Watergate incident, to the American mental outlook, social fashion, and the living conditions of all walks of life, to the anecdotes in the entertainment circle, women's fashion clothes, teenagers' fashion pursuit, and even the latest evolution of English vocabulary and people's sexual concepts. For every reader, reading this book is the simplest and most effective way to deeply understand the essence of America.
This book was published by the Commercial Press in 1979. At that time and in the long years after, it had a good response among readers in China, and even had a great influence on the writing of a large number of China journalists.
About the author:
1932, when the first page of the historical record of glory and dreams was opened, William? Manchester is only ten years old, but he is already a greedy newspaper reader. As the son of a Massachusetts worker, he experienced the pain of the Great Depression. 1936, Franklin? Roosevelt was re-elected president of the United States. This year, at the age of 14, he became a volunteer at the Democratic Party headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts. After Pearl Harbor, he served in the Marine Corps and was seriously injured in Okinawa, Japan. After his injury, he was admitted to the university.
At school, he wrote a literary review. His first book, written at the age of 27, is entitled "Peaceful disruptor", which is a biography for the door. This book was an immediate success in the critical circle. Since the 1940s, he has been the chief reporter and writer of The Baltimore Sun.
Manchester's books were translated into 17 languages and Braille. Among them, the two best-selling books are Krupp's Arms and The Death of the President. Glory and Dreams is his tenth book.
Glory and Dream-A Record of America (1932- 1972) is the author's latest work. The first edition was published in 1973, and soon it was reprinted and sold well.
This book is from 1932 Franklin? Before and after President Roosevelt took office, he wrote the Watergate Incident of 1972, which outlined the entire 40-year history of the United States and was rich in content. During this period, all the great changes in American political, economic, cultural and social life, the infighting between the ruling groups and the intrigue between the two parties in previous governments, the serious social unrest caused by the economic crisis, the mass struggle of workers, farmers, veterans and blacks, and so on. , are written to life. There are extensive comments on American mental outlook, social fashion and life in all walks of life in the past forty years, all the way to popular clothes and hairstyles, music movies and fashionable words in American English. Several "portraits of American characters" are also inserted in the book, which are silhouettes of representative figures in some aspects of contemporary America. This book makes full use of the close-up technique of news reports, and is written according to a large number of American newspapers and interview materials, providing rich information, which is of reference value for understanding the insider situation of contemporary American politics, economy and society.
This book is divided into five parts. The first part: the emergence of the times, written before and after President Roosevelt took office at the worst moment of the economic crisis, including the whole "New Deal" period, until the Pacific War broke out in 194 1. Part H: Sacrifice and change, from the "Pearl Harbor Incident" in 194 1 year to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. This is the decade when the United States ascended the throne of the capitalist world. The third part: planting evil roots, from I95 1 to 1960. When Eisenhower's presidency ended, the United States was in a new period of prosperity. The fourth part: "I will take the consequences", including the terms of two presidents, Kennedy and Johnson. This is an era of the Vietnam War and the rise of the domestic people's movement and the intensification of social unrest. The fifth part: Nixon finally came to power, from 1969 Nixon was elected president to Watergate incident. The author observes American history in recent forty years from the perspective of bourgeois liberals. The division of these five parts can be regarded as the general stages of the development and changes of American history in the past forty years. This basically reflects the historical process of how the United States climbed out of the "ditch bottom" of the economic crisis in the early 1930 s, ascended the hegemony throne of the capitalist world through World War II, and then declined sharply through a series of major changes such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Through a large number of facts, the book reveals the contradictions and weaknesses of American economy, politics and military affairs, the dilemma of domestic troubles and foreign invasion, overtaking in corners, and the ugly face of American society alienated from Germany, spiritual emptiness and rootless floating. However, it is impossible for the author to thoroughly expose the essence of the United States, especially its ambition to dominate the world and its reactionary policies in the early post-war period, and even openly attack the victory of China's People's Liberation War as an "Asian disaster" to defend the US invasion of North Korea. The economic crisis in the United States has been repeatedly explained by the bourgeois viewpoint of so-called insufficient consumption. The role of American monopoly consortia in the country's political and economic life is also very vague, without touching the essence of the problem. Finally, the author shows his nostalgia for the prosperity and glory of the United States and his infinite feelings about the disappearance of his dreams, and he is embarrassed that he can't see where the future of the United States lies. At the end of the book, it reads: "After intervening in the external conflicts for 65,438+0/3 centuries, the American people turned to the interior again. They want to seek comfort in isolation and seek revival in isolation. " These words are half a lament of "helplessness" and half a reactionary fantasy of reversing history. In fact, today, the Soviet Union and the United States are still fighting for world hegemony, and American imperialists are eager to reunite the lost dream of spring.
This book adopts the genre of historical stories, and its structure is not rigorous. Many places are too complicated, exaggerating vulgar tastes, and it is also worthy of readers' attention.
The data sources and bibliography attached to the original book are too trivial, so they are all deleted. Some yellow and obscene places in the original text are also slightly abridged. The index at the back of the book is also slightly deleted, and the page number in the index is the page number of the original book (printed on the side of the incision of this book).
This book is translated from the preface to chapter 2 1 by the British and American Research Office of Guangzhou Foreign Studies University, and from chapter 22 to the end of the book by our translation team.