书籍介绍
这不是一本寻常的美国开国史。它把镜头死死锁定在1776年圣诞夜到次年普林斯顿的那段凛冽寒冬：华盛顿横渡特拉华河之前，自由的新秩序几乎注定溃败，两支职业军队代表的旧等级秩序看似不可战胜。作者的高明之处，在于把一场军事行动还原为两种人类秩序的正面碰撞——一方是凭纪律与服从运转的旧世界，另一方是刚被证明“可以靠自由运作”的新实验。读者反复提及的，正是这种以小博大、以开放系统战胜封闭体系的戏剧张力，以及作者对几场战役近乎显微镜式的拆解。它适合那些不满足于“华盛顿神机妙算”式叙事、想看清一个年轻国家如何在绝境中靠自由与纪律的平衡赢得生死的人。
AI导读
核心看点
- 普利策奖获奖作，聚焦华盛顿横渡特拉华河
- 深入剖析独立战争中美军与英军的战术差异
- 详尽考证黑森雇佣兵历史，还原战争细节
读者共识
- 学术价值极高，是研究美国史的经典之作
- 揭示了美国建国历程的戏剧性与九死一生
- 翻译水平争议较大，影响部分阅读体验
精彩摘录
- "The American Revolution pitted an amateur army fighting for a new order of liberty and independence against two professional armies (British and Hessian) defending an old order of hierarchy and discipline. Until Washington crossed the Delaware, the triumph of the old order seemed inevitable. Thereaf"
- "Northerners admired it as a symbol of freedom and union; southerners liked it as an image of liberty and independence. When the Civil War began, it was used to raise money for the Union Cause and the antislavery movement. The presence of an African American in the boat was not an accident; the artis"
- "Emanuel Leutze also understood that something more was at issue in this event. The small battles near the Delaware were a collision between two discoveries about the human condition that were made in the early modern era. One of them was the discovery that people could organize a society on the basi"
- "When the conflict began in earnest, during the late summer and fall of 1776, the forces of order won most of the major battles, but an army of free men won the winter campaign that followed. They did so not by imitating a European army of order, a profound error in historical interpretations of the "
- "To study them with their general is to understand what George Washington meant when he wrote, "A people unused to restraint must be led; they will not be drove.""
- "From these men George Washington learned the creed he followed all his life. It valued self-government, discipline, virtue, reason, and restraint. Historians have called it a stoic philosophy, but it was far removed from the ancient Stoicism of the slave Epictetus, who sought a renunciation of the w"
- "Washington thought of liberty in the Stoic way, as independence from what he called "involuntary passion." He was a man of strong passions, which he struggled to keep in check. For him the worst slavery was to be in bondage to unbridled passion and not in "full possession of himself." George Washing"
- "He deliberately kept others at a distance and advised his manager at Mount Vernon always to deal that way with inferiors. "To treat them civilly is no more than what all men are entitled to," Washington wrote,"but my advice to you is, to keep them at a proper distance; for they will grow upon famili"
用户评论
独立战争,特伦敦之战 普林思顿战役. 三星是因為翻譯不通典故的關係，如果好好翻譯，41/2 是沒問題的。
2005年普利策非小说类作品奖。中国的学者应该好好看看此书，学习一下人家是怎么作学术书的。
美国历史 战争史
美国独立战争实为内战，英国皇室和高层一部分人对抗美国和自己国家另外一部分人。
书中很多地名都在princeton附近，包括washington crossing state park, princeton battlefield, Nassau Hall, Trenton, Quaker Bridge, Rocky Hill, Morven...而现在这些地方几乎无一例外开辟为纪念性公园，让现在的人可以更方便地走进历史。
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