No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's enormous ambitions -- would go on to live a life that no one could have predicted: dismissed as a spent force in politics by the time he reached middle age, Ted became the most powerful senator of the last half century and the nation's keeper of traditional liberalism. As Peter S. Canellos and his team of Boston Globe reporters show in this revealing and intimate biography, the gregarious, pudgy, and least academically successful of the Kennedy boys has witnessed greater tragedy and suffered greater pressure than any of his siblings. At the age of thirty-six, Ted Kennedy found himself the last brother, the champion of a generation's dreams and ambitions. He would be expected to give the nation the confidence to confront its problems and to build a fairer society at home and abroad. He quickly failed in spectacular fashion. Late one night in the summer of 1969, he left the scene of a fatal automobile accident on Chappaquiddick Island. The death there of a young woman from his brother's campaign would haunt and ultimately doom his presidential ambitions. Political rivals turned his all-too-human failings -- drinking, philandering, and divorce -- into a condemnation of his liberal politics. But as the presidency eluded his grasp, Kennedy was finally liberated from the expectations of others, free to become his own man. Once a symbol of youthful folly and nepotism, he transformed himself in his later years into a symbol of wisdom and perseverance. He built a deeply loving marriage with his second wife, Victoria Reggie. He embraced his role as the family patriarch. And as his health failed, he anointed the young and ambitious presidential candidate Barack Obama, whom many commentators compared to his brother Jack. The Kennedy brand of liberalism was rediscovered by a new generation of Americans. Perceptive and carefully reported, drawing heavily from candid interviews with the Kennedy family and inner circle, Last Lion captures magnificently the life and historic achievements of Ted Kennedy, as well as the personal redemption that he found.
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说实话,这本书的结构设计简直是一场对传统叙事方式的颠覆。它采用了多线叙事,不同角色的视角像碎裂的镜子,各自折射出同一事件的不同侧面。起初,这种跳跃感让人感到困惑,经常需要停下来思考“这个视角和前一个有什么关联?”但一旦你适应了这种节奏,就会被它精妙的编排所折服。作者的高明之处在于,他没有将所有线索在最后简单地缝合起来,而是留下了许多开放式的问号,让读者自己去填补那些空白。这使得每一次重读都能发现新的解读角度。我个人最喜欢的是关于权力更迭的描写,它没有落入俗套地歌颂某一方的胜利,而是深刻揭示了“胜利”本身往往就是新一轮“失败”的开始。书中充满了政治权谋和人性博弈,但所有计谋的展开都显得非常自然,很少有那种为了剧情需要而强行反转的感觉。它更像是观察一群人在极端压力下,如何一步步走向他们早已注定的结局。
评分读完这本书,我的第一感受是,这简直是一场关于“失去”的盛大交响乐,每一个音符都浸透了宿命的悲凉。它的文笔极其华丽,但这种华丽并非空洞的辞藻堆砌,而是与故事氛围完美融合的产物。作者似乎非常钟爱使用长句,那些句子如同蜿蜒的河流,带着丰富的意象和深刻的哲思,让人不得不放慢呼吸去品味。我尤其欣赏作者对环境描写的细腻程度,无论是风吹过干涸河床的声音,还是月光洒在古老城墙上的斑驳光影,都仿佛触手可及。然而,这种强烈的文学性也带来了一些阅读上的障碍。有那么几章,我感觉自己完全沉浸在那些唯美的描述中,反而忽略了情节的推进,需要来回翻阅才能重新找回故事的线索。书中对于“时间”的探讨令人深思,它似乎在暗示,无论个体如何挣扎,历史的车轮总会碾过一切。情感表达方面,它走的是内敛含蓄的路线,没有歇斯底里的爆发,只有那种深埋心底,随着岁月慢慢腐蚀的伤痕,读起来,让人感到一种沉甸甸的共鸣。
评分这本书给我的阅读体验是压抑而厚重的,仿佛背负了一块巨大的铅块。它讲述的故事,虽然设定在一个架空的世界,但其内核反映出的社会问题和历史教训,却让人感到无比的熟悉和警醒。作者的笔触非常写实,尤其是在描写底层民众的挣扎时,那种生活化的细节描写,比如食物的缺乏、疾病的蔓延、对微小恩惠的感激,都显得那么真实可信,让人感同身受。我花了很长时间来理解书中关于“记忆与遗忘”的哲学探讨,它似乎在问我们,一个社会选择记住什么,又选择遗忘什么,决定了它未来的走向。这本书的缺点,如果非要说的话,大概就是过于沉重,几乎没有喘息的机会。它就像一趟没有终点的苦旅,即便抵达了某个阶段性的安全地带,空气中也弥漫着下一个危机的预兆。读完最后一页,我感觉自己像是跑完了一场马拉松,精疲力尽,但内心却有一种被洗礼过的清晰感。它不是为了娱乐大众而写,而是为了记录和拷问。
评分这本小说,坦白说,读起来就像是在迷雾中摸索,那种感觉既让人着迷又让人沮丧。作者构建的世界观宏大得令人难以置信,细节的打磨简直达到了吹毛求疵的地步。我花了相当长的时间才把那些错综复杂的人物关系和历史脉络梳理清楚,感觉自己像是在解一个极其精密的古老钟表。一开始,你会觉得叙事节奏慢得像蜗牛爬行,各种背景铺垫冗长得让人想直接跳页。然而,当你坚持下去,会发现每一个看似无关紧要的段落,其实都是未来高潮爆发时必不可少的一块基石。角色的塑造尤其出色,没有绝对的好人或坏人,每个人都活在自己的灰色地带,他们的动机和选择总是带着令人心碎的合理性。特别是主角团中那个沉默寡言的智者,他的每一次开口都掷地有声,带着一种看透世事的疲惫感。不过,这本书的缺点也很明显,那就是它对读者的要求太高了。如果你指望的是一部能让你轻松度过周末的爆米花读物,那恐怕要失望了。它更像是一部需要你全神贯注,甚至时不时停下来查阅笔记才能跟上的史诗。我喜欢这种挑战,但我也承认,它绝对不适合所有口味的读者。
评分我是在一个朋友的极力推荐下开始读的,坦白讲,我有点怀疑,因为市面上太多被过度吹捧的作品了。但这次,我必须承认,我被彻底说服了。这本书最震撼我的地方在于它的“冷酷的真实感”。它描绘的不是一个英雄拯救世界的童话,而是一群普通人,在面对不可抗拒的命运洪流时,如何做出选择,以及这些选择带来的沉重代价。书中没有矫揉造作的浪漫桥段,即便是爱情,也是被战争、饥饿和生存压力扭曲得面目全非。作者似乎对人性的阴暗面有着近乎病态的迷恋,但有趣的是,正是在这些最黑暗的角落里,偶尔会闪现出人性中最微弱却也最坚韧的光芒。我花了很长时间消化书中关于“信仰崩塌”的那一部分,那种从内心深处被抽空的无力感,作者描绘得淋漓尽致。它不是一本读完后会让你感到快乐的书,但它绝对是一本能让你思考良久,并对你现有的认知体系发起挑战的书籍。
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