《最后一杯》内容简介

　　《最后一杯：美国禁酒令的立与废》的作者是美国资深媒体人、非虚构作家丹尼尔·奥克伦特(DanielOkrent)，他获得过普利策奖提名，曾担任过《纽约时报》公共编辑。《最后一杯》是他的代表作，入选过多家媒体的年度选书，也是关于美国“禁酒时期”历史最重要、最受欢迎的一本著作。禁酒时期可调是美国历史乃至世界历史上的一个“奇葩”时期，从1920年领布宪法第18次修正案（禁酒令）宣布限制所有酒精类饮品的生产、运输，进出口和销售，到1933年第21次宪法修正案废止禁酒，这十四年对美国社会生活的诸多方面有着不同程度的影响。禁酒问题也是更深入理解美国政治生态、法律与强制、道德与社会等问题的一个绝佳切入口。《最后一杯》可谓是一部“史诗“级的作品，分四大部分，共21章。奥克伦特积十年之力，搜集并详查了大量档案和史料，详述了美国禁酒令从立到废的整个过程。他笔下的人物众多，上至一国总統，下至平民百姓，政客、巨商、贵族、说客、私酒贩、作家、教士、法官、警察、歹徒等—应俱全，登场人物达数百人。奥克伦特以风趣辛辣的笔触，揭示了各路迥异的政治力量如何汇聚于”禁酒“这一旗帜之下，奇迹般地达成共识，完成禁酒大业。而这一次对私人生活的空前干涉，又受到了哪些直接或间接的社会反弹，为当今美国社会遗留下哪些不可忽视的印迹。本书为读者了解禁酒令时期的美国历史提供了窗口，更完整、全面地体现了20世纪初美国社会的生态及面貌，其中文版的出版，也可以填补禁酒令领域的一块空白。

　　作者简介

　　[美]丹尼尔·奥克伦特

　　出生于1948年4月2日，《纽约时报》首位公共编辑，曾担任时代出版公司特约编辑、《生活》总编辑、哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院爱德华·默罗访问讲席教授、哥伦比亚大学新闻学院赫斯特基金会新媒体研究员，以及国家肖像美术馆主席等职。出版有五部著作，其中《富可敌国：洛克菲勒中心传奇》一书入围2004年普利策历史类图书奖评选名单，《最后一杯：美国禁酒令的立与废》荣获2011年美国历史学会艾伯特·贝弗里奇奖。

　　译者简介

　　钟志军，毕业于上海交通大学法学院，译有《最高法院的“喜剧之王”：安东宁·斯卡利亚大法官传》（2012）。

　　罗梦玲，华东师范大学英语语言文学硕士，研究方向为美国文学、美国政治与社会、文学翻译。

　　

A brief introduction to the Last Drink

The Last Drink: The Making and Ending of Prohibition in America is by DanielOkrent, a veteran media personality, Pulitzer Prize-nominated nonfiction writer and former public editor of The New York Times. The Last Drink is his magnum opus, an annual selection of several publications, and one of the most important and popular works on the history of Prohibition in the United States. The Prohibition period is a "strange" period in the history of the United States and even the history of the world, from the 18th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920 (Prohibition) declared restrictions on the production, transportation, import, export and sale of all alcoholic beverages, to the 21st Amendment to the Constitution in 1933 to abolish prohibition. These fourteen years have had varying degrees of impact on many aspects of American social life. The prohibition issue is also an excellent entry point for a deeper understanding of the political ecology, law and coercion, morality and society in the United States. "The Last Cup" can be described as an "epic" level of work, divided into four parts, a total of 21 chapters. Over the course of a decade, Okrente has collected and scrutinized numerous archives and historical records detailing the entire process of prohibition in the United States from its establishment to its abolition. His characters range from presidents to ordinary people, politicians, businessmen, aristocrats, lobbyists, booggers, writers, priests, judges, policemen, gangsters - hundreds of them. In a witty and poignant way, Okrent shows how disparate political forces came together under the banner of prohibition to miraculously reach a consensus. This unprecedented interference in private life, and what direct or indirect social backlash, for today's American society left a legacy that cannot be ignored. This book provides a window for readers to understand the history of the United States during the Prohibition period, a more complete and comprehensive reflection of the ecology and appearance of the American society at the beginning of the 20th century, and the publication of the Chinese edition can also fill a gap in the field of prohibition.

About the author

[US] Daniel Okrent

Born April 2, 1948, the first public editor of the New York Times, he has served as editor-at large at Time Publishing, editor-in-chief of Life, Edward Murrow Visiting Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Hearst Foundation Fellow in New Media at Columbia University's Journalism School, and Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery. He is the author of five books, including The Richest of the Rich: The Legend of Rockefeller Center, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for History Books, and The Last Drink: The Making and Ending of Prohibition in America, which won the 2011 Albert Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.

Translator's introduction

Zhong Zhijun, a graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School, is the author of "The Supreme Court's 'King of Comedy' : A Biography of Justice Antonin Scalia" (2012).

Luo Mengling holds a Master's degree in English Language and literature from East China Normal University. Her research interests include American literature, American politics and society, and literary translation.