What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

  • -- David Herbert Donald 大卫赫伯特唐纳德

我认为我们应该在这样一本书里做的是密切关注林肯,他自己,看看他知道什么,他是如何知道的,他是如何做出他所做的决定的,以及他是如何执行这些决定的。

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I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

我想在神话和遥远的未来之间摇摆,昨天,今天,明天。感觉有点像预言,有点像讲故事。

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

我以为我会输,所以没有准备演讲。