Decades of interviews later, Mr Gaddis, who is now 70, had become accustomed to hisstudents speculating sombrely about which of us might go first. Even Kennan felt sorry forpoor John in 2003 he lamented the serious burden of his own unnatural longevity. Itwas only in 2005, when death finally claimed Kennan at the age of 101, that Mr Gaddis couldbegin thinking about publishing this long-awaited biography.
自两人会面后的几十年里,如今已古稀之年的约翰加迪斯已经习惯了让他的学生们严肃地预测一下我们两个谁会先走一步。即便是乔治凯南也对约翰加迪斯心怀愧疚;2003年他曾为自己的超然长寿带来的不堪重负而悲叹不已。2005年,101岁的乔治凯南终于等到了生命的终点,也是从那时起,约翰加迪斯才可以开始考虑出版这本经历了漫长等待的传记了。
The extraordinary length of the book s gestation meant that much changed betweenconception and publication. Had it appeared in the mid-1980s, the context would havebeen cold-war stalemate; in the early 1990s, celebration; a decade ago in 2001, concernabout terrorism. Because George F. Kennan: An American Life finally arrives in the uneasyyear of 2011, its context is economic misery and questions about the future of Americandominance in international affairs.
这本书无与伦比的超长妊娠期意味着其起初构思与最终出版之间的多次变更。在书中,80年代中期的背景主要是冷战僵局;90年代早期是庆祝冷战胜利;2001年之后的十年主要涉及反恐。熬到了经历漫长艰辛最终出版的2011年,背景则又成了经济困局和对美国将来是否能主导全球事务的疑问。
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