2020年5月2日 星期六

Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness 托克維爾的《舊制度與大革命》

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中國前全國政協主席俞正聲於致《財新》創辦人胡舒立信函文末,建議胡舒立讀一讀《珍珠港1941》這本書。經查相同書名書籍不只一本,比較可能是暢銷作家尼爾森(Craig Nelson)寫的Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness珍珠港:從臭名昭著到偉大。這是為珍珠港事件75周年而出版,中文版在去年底出版。作者經過5年研究事件,指出日軍的不可預測性造成悲劇。珍珠港事件至今對美、日兩國都持續產生影響。

Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness

  • 作者: Nelson, Craig
  • 原文出版社:Scribner Book Company
  • 出版日期:2017/
"A valuable reexamination" (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America--Pearl Harbor--based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author.
The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men--and forced America's entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history.
Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan's leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same.
Backed by a research team's five years of work, as well as Nelson's thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work "weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies" (Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy's unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.


中國國家副主席王岐山在2012年曾建議讀法國政治學家托克維爾的《舊制度與大革命》,在中國掀起一股解讀熱潮。因為當時中國社會矛盾激化,與法國大革命之前有高度相似性,都處於最繁榮的時期,物質財富的增加,催促人們權利意識的覺醒,對特權、腐敗、不正義的容忍度更低。(林庭瑤)

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