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1、关于林肯的故事 美国英雄中，除了可能做到“我没有撒过谎”的乔治·华盛顿外，谁得到的信任都比不上,接下来，我给大家打算了关于林肯的故事,欢迎大家参考与借鉴。 关于林肯的故事 By Harold Holzer No American hero, with the possible exception of George "I Cannot Tell a Lie" Washington, has been more encrusted with myth than Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln did boast virtues that req
2、uired little embellishment. He rose from obscurity through hard work, self-education and honesty. He endured venomous criticism to save the Union and end slavery. He died shortly after his greatest triumph at the hands of an assassin. But tall-tale-tellers have never hesitated to rewrite Lincoln'
3、;s biography. On Presidents' Day, it's well worth dispelling some perennial misconceptions about the man on the $5 bill. 1. Lincoln was a simple country lawyer. This durable legend, personified by laconic Henry Fonda in John Ford's film "Young Mr. Lincoln," dies hard. Lincoln&#
4、39;s law partner William H. Herndon, looking to boost his own reputation, introduced the canard that Lincoln cared little about his legal practice, did scant research, joked around with juries and judges, and sometimes failed to collect fees. Lincoln himself may have compromised his legal reputation
5、 with his oft-quoted admonition "Discourage litigation." True, politics became lawyer Lincoln's chief ambition. Still, in the 1850s he ably (and profitably) represented the Illinois Central Railroad and the Rock Island Bridge Co. - the company that built the first railroad bridge over
6、the Mississippi River - and earned a solid reputation as one of his home state's top appeals lawyers. Lincoln's legal papers testify to a diverse and profitable practice. Had he not been "aroused," as he put it, to speak out in 1854 against the pro-slavery Kansas-Nebraska Act befor
7、e seeking a Senate seat, he likely would have remained a full-time lawyer and earned fame and fortune at the bar. 2. Lincoln was gay. Gay rights activist Larry Kramer has long speculated that Lincoln was gay, claiming in 1999 that he'd discovered Lincoln's love letters to onetime roommate Jo
8、shua Speed. The claim is reportedly featured in Kramer's forthcoming history of homosexuality, "The American People," but historian Gabor Boritt called Kramer's assertion "almost certainly . . . a hoax." Still, the idea persists. In 2005, "The Intimate World of Abrah
9、am Lincoln," written by queer theory professor C. A. Tripp - a colleague of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey - purported to prove that Lincoln was an active homosexual who married only to conform to 19th-century convention and continued flirting and sleeping with young men throughout his presidency
10、. Tripp went so far as to suggest that Lincoln's sexual indifference is what contributed to his wife's mental illness. Is it true? And if it is, does it matter? According to Herndon, Lincoln exhibited a "powerful" attraction to women and was a regular customer in prairie brothels b
11、efore his marriage at age 33. His first son was born just nine months after his marriage, which suggests enthusiasm if not experience. Then again, proving that a man loves women isn't the same as proving that he doesn't love men. Maybe it's best to throw up our hands - and remember that
12、Lincoln's sexual orientation is but a small part of his historical legacy. 3. Lincoln was depressed. Four generations of biographers attest that Lincoln was often morose, but Washington College's Joshua Wolf Shenk made the case in his recent book, "Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depressi
13、on Challenged a President and Fueled his Greatness," that the 16th president was clinically depressed. Lincoln certainly had moments of what he called the "hypo," most notably when his first serious crush, Ann Rutledge, died in 1835, and again when he broke up with fianc?e Mary Todd o
14、n the eve of their nuptials in 1841. (They reconciled the next year.) Though I co-edited a collection of Lincoln papers with Shenk, we disagree on this point. Genuine depression was untreatable in the 19th century, and its victims often descended into madness or took their own lives. It is impossibl
15、e to reconcile this debilitating disease with the Lincoln who labored tirelessly and effectively during his demanding presidency. Clinically depressed people often can't get out of bed, let alone command an army. Was Lincoln sad? Sure - his son Willie died of fever in the White House in 1862, wh
16、ile the president himself led a war that would take the lives of 600,000 other young men. It would be far more remarkable had Lincoln remained perennially jolly. 4. Lincoln was too compassionate. Much has been made by poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg and other historians over the notion tha
17、t Lincoln was a serial pardoner. This is untrue - Lincoln not only approved the execution of deserters, but 38 alleged Indian raiders were hanged by his order in Mankato, Minn. on Dec. 26, 1862, still the largest mass execution on U.S. soil. Meanwhile, Lincoln conducted the bloodiest war in American
18、 history to preserve the Union, authorized the deployment of deadly new weaponry such as mines, ironclad warships and niter (a 19th-century version of napalm), and accepted unprecedented casualties for his chosen cause. The recent scandal over an altered National Archives pardon - a document alleged
19、ly changed by historian Thomas P. Lowry in 1998 to make it appear that Lincoln spent his final hours pardoning a soldier for desertion - gives us the opportunity to reconsider the chronic oversimplification of Lincoln's soft touch. In light of the Archives melee, historians should re-examine the
20、 thousands of pardons Lincoln issued to weigh their authenticity and balance them against the death sentences he did allow. 5. Lincoln was mortally ill. No shortage of armchair physicians are ready to diagnose Lincoln 150 years after his death. He had cardiovascular disease, some say. Or he had the
21、rare genetic disorder Marfan's Syndrome. Or he had the fatal cancer MEN2B. Had Lincoln not been assassinated on April 14, 1865, medical historians like John Sotos imply, he would have died soon enough without John Wilkes Booth's help. If any of these illnesses wracked Lincoln's body duri
22、ng his presidency, how do we explain his inexhaustible physical constitution? Or the rarity of his wartime illnesses, limited to a mild bout of smallpox which killed his valet? How do we explain the ease with which the 56-year-old demonstrated his favorite frontier feat of strength - holding a heavy
23、 ax at arm's length between his fingers - just a few days before his death? Like many presidents, Lincoln grew visibly haggard during his presidency. He also lost weight. But the physicians who attended him on his deathbed marveled at his muscular arms and chest. A weaker man, they concluded, wo
24、uld have died the minute he was shot. Lincoln fought off death for nine hours - hardly within the ability of a man with a pre-existing condition. 关于林肯的五个流言 Annuska/译 美国英雄中，除了可能做到“我没有撒过谎”的乔治·华盛顿外，谁得到的信任都比不上——被捧上神堂的——亚伯拉罕·林肯。林肯夸张地拥有未经雕饰的美德。他通过努力工作、自学，以诚恳的品质，从卑微的位置
25、往上走。为保卫联邦，为结束奴隶制，他忍受了恶毒的攻击。在赢得一生中最重要的成功后，他死于暗杀。但夸张叙事的作者们从来不曾迟疑重写林肯传记。在总统日，消退一些——这男人的头像印在5美元纸币上——流言，是一件很有意义的事情。 流言1、林肯只不过是乡村律师 精干利落的亨利·方达在约翰·福特的电影少年林肯中的表演，使该传言形象化，因此深化人心。林肯的合伙律师威廉姆·H·赫唐，为了吹嘘自己，造谣说林肯不关切自己的律师事务：调查潦草;与陪审员和法官开玩笑;有时候，还收不到账。林肯常常轻责自己“对官司冷眼
26、旁观”，因此可能也糟蹋了自己律师的名声。 当然，律师林肯的第一追求是政治。然而，直到19世纪80年头，他胜利地(也赚了一大笔)代表了伊利诺伊州中心铁路和洛克岛桥梁公司，该公司修建了第一条横跨密西西比河的铁路桥。这项业务确定了他在本州——属于顶级律师行列——的坚固地位。 林肯的法律文件证明他业务多多、利润丰厚。1854年，在竞选参议员之前，假如他不“出头”，剧烈反对拥奴的堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案，那么他就可以依旧当全职律师，在法庭上名利双收。(堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案使奴隶制得以向北扩张，引起堪萨斯内战，进一步爆发了南北斗争。—&mdash
27、;译者注)。 2、林肯是同性恋 许久以来，同性恋权利活动家拉瑞·克拉梅认为林肯是同性恋。1999年，他声称发觉了林肯写给以前室友——阿尔弗雷德·斯比特——的几封情书。在克拉梅即将出版的同性恋历史美国人民一书中，将突出该论断。但历史学家盖博·博瑞特说克拉梅的说法“基本确定……胡言乱语。” 但，这说法始终流传。2005年，一位酷儿理论教授C·A·特里普出版了亚伯拉罕·林肯的隐秘世界。该教授也是性学家阿尔弗雷德·金赛的同事。在书
28、中，他一本正经地声明林肯是一位活跃的同性恋人士，他结婚只是要符合19世纪的风俗，并且在总统任职期间，接着和年轻男子调情、睡觉。特里普进一步深化，认为林肯妻子由于他的性冷落，才患上精神疾病的。(酷儿理论：最早与同性恋有关的一些理论、说法，随后引申至情色、男女等方面的探讨，进一步指前卫观点。——译者注) 真的吗?就算真的，又怎样?据赫唐说，林肯对女人有“剧烈的”吸引力;在33岁结婚前，他是牧场妓院的常客。结婚后9个月，他的长子就降生了，这说明即使他阅历不够，也算热忱如火。当然，证明一个男人爱女人，并不能证明他不爱男人。或许最好的方法是放开这个问题——
29、要记住，林肯的性取向和其历史功绩几乎没有关系。 3、林肯性格愁闷 整整四代传记作家都认为林肯经常愁闷，然而，华盛顿高校的约书亚·沃尔夫·沈克在近期出版的林肯的伤感：愁闷症如何挑战总统、激励他的宏大中列出证据，说第十六届总统已被诊断患有愁闷症。林肯自己也说有过不少“抓狂”的时候，特殊是遭遇了第一次严峻打击：安妮·鲁特雷吉死于1836年;随后1841年，在婚礼前夕，他与未婚妻玛丽·托德分手。(其次年，两人复合。) 尽管我与沈克一起编撰林肯资料，但对该问题，我们看法不同。在19世纪，真正的愁闷症是不治之症，患者常常发疯或自杀。总统的责任繁重，林
30、肯不知疲乏地工作，并且效率很高。将令人崩溃的疾病和林肯联系起来，真的不行能。确诊得了愁闷症的人，几乎不能下床，遑论指挥军队了。 林肯郁闷吗?当然——1862年，他的儿子发高烧，死在了白宫;当时，他是总统，指挥一场斗争,这场斗争还夺走了60万年轻男子的性命。假如这样还要林肯保持开朗，未免太强人所难了。 4、林肯很慈爱 这个说法很大程度来自卡尔·桑伯格(诗人、林肯传记作家)和其他一些历史学家，他们认为林肯始终慈善为怀。这不是真的——林肯不仅同意处决背弃者;而且签署了——1862年12月26日在明尼苏达州曼卡托绞死
31、38名印第安攻击者——的吩咐，迄今为止，是在美国大地上发生的最大屠杀。(“最大”是指美国建国后，不包括殖民时代。——译者注。) 同时，林肯为保卫联邦，进行了美国历史上最血腥的斗争，批准运用了一些致命武器，如水雷、装甲战舰和硝石(19世纪的凝固汽油弹);而且为了他信仰的理由，不顾伤亡如何惨重。 近来，出现了一个丑闻：国家档案馆内的特赦令被扭曲了——1998年，历史学家托马斯·P·罗瑞有意扭曲了文件的内容，使其表现出林肯在最终时刻特赦了一名逃兵。这件丑闻让人有机会反思：长期以来，过于简化林肯松软的一
32、面。随着各类纷杂档案的公布，历史学家应当重新谛视林肯签署的上万份特赦，有多少是真实的;而且，还要对比他签署的死刑令。 5、林肯身患重疾 他死后的150年，不少异想天开的内科医生打算给林肯诊断。有人说，林肯有心脏病。还有人说，他患有罕见的马凡氏综合症(一种先天性、遗传性结缔组织疾病。——译者注)。还有些人说，他患有致命的MEN2B癌症 (MEN2B为甲状腺髓样癌，粘膜神经纤维瘤和嗜铬细胞瘤。——译者注) 。医疗历史学家，如约翰·所托斯推论，假如1865年4月14日，他不死于暗杀，不用约翰·威克斯·布斯帮忙，
33、他也快死了。(约翰·威克斯·布斯：刺杀林肯的凶手。——译者注) 假如任职总统期间，林肯真患有这类疾病，那如何说明他力气无穷无尽的体质?如何说明斗争期间，除了出过一次温柔的天花外，他极少生病?而那次天花，要了身边男仆的命。在死前的几天，56岁的他，用最爱的边疆方式展示力气——用手指夹着一把重重的斧头，伸出一臂的距离。他轻而易举做到，该如何说明? 林肯和许多总统一样，在任职期间日益憔悴。他也变得消瘦。但临终前，来到他床前的医生们，都对他健壮的胳膊和胸膛感到惊异。他们说，体格略微弱一些的人，挨枪子的几分钟后就会死亡。林肯和死亡搏斗了九个小时——假如人以前患病的话，根本做不到。 本文来源：网络收集与整理，如有侵权，请联系作者删除，谢谢！第15页 共15页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页第 15 页 共 15 页