140年前的4月14日晚,福特戏院一声枪响,林肯遇刺,数小时后身亡。这位为维护联邦统一、解放黑奴而抛洒热血的殉难者,1950年被哈佛大学的历史学家们评为美国最伟大的总统。伟人并不是天生的,林肯坦承自己是“时势造就的总统”。成为“美国英雄”前的林肯,是什么样?美国的历史学家研究发现,林肯远非高不可攀的圣人。 Forty years ago, on the evening of April 14, a Ford gunshot was shot and Lincoln was assassinated, killing a few hours later. The bloodied martyr who defended federalism and liberated the slaves was named the nation’s greatest president by historians of Harvard University in 1950. The great man is not born, Lincoln admitted that he is “the president of the times.” What kind of Lincoln was before being a “hero of the United States?” According to a study by American historians, Lincoln is far from saintly superior.