一这是我涉足学坛以来的第一部个人文集。恰好十年以前,也就是1984年夏秋之际,我的第一篇习作刊印成文。这篇对当时正讨论得很热闹的关于林肯评价的综述文稿,也是我最早的一篇涉猎美国史的文章——自此之后即与美国史结下了不解之缘。有意思的是,这篇很稚嫩、也不成体统的东西,居然接连被《新华文摘》、《高等学校文科学报文摘》、《世界近代、现代史》转载。说来不怕笑话,这的 This is my first personal essay since I was involved in the school. Just ten years ago, the summer of 1984, my first essay was published in print. This commentary on Lincoln’s evaluation, which was being discussed very lively at the time, was also one of my earliest articles on American history - and has since become inextricably linked with the history of the United States. Interestingly, this very immature, nor the system of things, actually one after another was “Xinhua Digest”, “College Liberal Arts Digest”, “Modern and Contemporary World,” reproduced. Not afraid of jokes, this