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Disasters and Tragic Events: An Encyclopedia of Catastrophes in American History

机译：灾难与悲剧事件：《美国历史巨灾百科全书》

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"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today', we sigh" (Lord Acton). American history has rarely been measured only by noting it through a string of disasters, catastrophes and tragedies; so, compiling a book about human suffering and the chronic destruction of American infrastructures is a provocative choice. I don't want to call this kind of reading "fun" but it is. Disasters and Tragic Events: An Encyclopedia of Catastrophes in American History is closer to a voyeuristic compendium of guilty pleasures involving natural disasters and cumulative bad behaviour, than a genuine marker of American history. And in part it most certainly is like reading certain back issues of People magazine: listings of the Donner Party cannibalism ordeal, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Station nightclub fire -although interesting - don't necessarily seem like events on a scale large enough or significant enough to be more than tick marks along the historical path of American development. And yet the historical backdrop of the Donner Party event and the consequences of the Lindbergh kidnapping do indeed point to some significance in America's past.
机译：“如果每天早上没有宣布重大灾难，我们会感到有些空虚。'今天没有什么，我们会感叹”（阿克顿勋爵）。很少通过一连串的灾难，灾难和悲剧来指出美国的历史，因此很难对美国的历史进行衡量。因此，编写一本有关人类苦难和美国基础设施的长期破坏的书是一种挑衅的选择。我不想称这种阅读为“有趣”，而是事实。灾难和悲剧事件：《美国历史上的巨灾百科全书》更像是一部关于自然灾害和累积不良行为的有罪享乐的窥探汇编，而不是美国历史的真实标记。从某种程度上说，它肯定像是在读《人物》杂志的某些老杂志：唐纳党自相残杀的折磨，林德伯格婴儿被绑架和车站夜总会大火的清单-尽管很有趣-不一定看起来像是规模足够大或具有足够的意义，足以超越美国发展史上的壁垒。然而，唐纳党事件的历史背景以及林德伯格绑架的后果确实表明了美国过去的某些意义。

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