Around the World with General Grant
Around the World with General Grant
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与格兰特将军一起环游世界
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2002
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M. Fellman
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J. Young;M. Fellman
在1877年离开总统办公室后，托马斯。格兰特开始了一段与他的传奇同名的旅程，这是一次环球旅行，他在两年半的时间里从欧洲到中东和亚洲。陪同格兰特的是记者约翰·罗素·杨，他是一名战时伙伴，格兰特刚到英国时，他正在欧洲担任《纽约先驱报》的记者。杨受《先驱报》委派，加入了前总统的随行人员，忠实地记录了这次盛大旅行的每一个细节--观光、正式访问、旅行条件，以及格兰特与国家元首和其他知名人士就内战和其他国家事务进行的坦率讨论。在远离家乡的地方，格兰特可以自由地谈论他的联邦军官同僚，他的邦联对手，以及战争的进行，比他在他著名的但接近背心的回忆录中要长得多。这些对战争的咸回忆使这本游记对后代具有最重要的意义。1879年首次出版的两卷本中，杨的叙述被历史学家迈克尔·费尔曼（Michael Fellman）删节，现在可以在一卷本中向现代读者提供，除了他在国外的冒险，还提炼了格兰特对他战时和行政经历的朴素记忆和判断。它包含了格兰特对内战时期的人物如石墙杰克逊和乔治麦克莱伦的看法。这是一个亲密的肖像之一，美国最辉煌的-和周到的-军事男子。这也是一本旅行书，充满了对异国情调的地方和西方，特别是英国帝国主义的反思，因为美国不情愿地进入世界舞台。
After leaving the office of the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant embarked on a journey worthy of his legendary namesake, an around-the-world tour that took him from Europe to the Middle East and Asia over two and one-half years. Accompanying Grant was journalist John Russell Young, a wartime associate who was working in Europe as a correspondent for the "New York Herald" when Grant first arrived in England. On assignment for the "Herald", Young joined the former president's entourage and faithfully recorded every detail of the grand tour - the sightseeing, official visits, travel conditions, and Grant's candid discussions with heads of state and other notables about the Civil War and other matters of state. So far from home, Grant felt free to speak his mind about his fellow Union officers, his Confederate adversaries, and the conduct of the war, at far more length than he would in his celebrated but close-to-the-vest memoirs. These salty reminiscences of the war give this travelogue its greatest importance for posterity. First published in two volumes in 1879, Young's account has been abridged by historian Michael Fellman and is now available to modern readers in a single volume that, besides his adventures abroad, distills Grant's unvarnished memories and judgements of his wartime and executive experiences. It contains Grant's opinions of such Civil War figures as Stonewall Jackson and George McClellan. This is an intimate portrait of one of America's most brilliant - and thoughtful -military men. It is also a travel book, filled with reflections on exotic places and on Western, particularly British, imperialism as America was on the reluctant verge of entering the world stage.