耄耋之年：雅克?巴贊

????雅克?馬丁?巴贊在93歲時(shí)出版了《從黎明到衰落》（From Dawn to Decadence），描述了西方生活從1500年到現(xiàn)在的文化歷史，而且成為《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》暢銷書。這本巨著稱職地成為巴贊職業(yè)生涯的頂峰成就。他在自己的職業(yè)生涯期間，曾先后贏得美國(guó)總統(tǒng)自由勛章、法國(guó)榮譽(yù)軍團(tuán)勛章，而且出版了30多本書，主題從科學(xué)和醫(yī)學(xué)到文學(xué)、藝術(shù)、及古典音樂都有。巴贊在1945年出版的《美國(guó)教師》（Teacher in America ）一書影響美國(guó)教育多年。

????巴贊在巴黎長(zhǎng)大，十幾歲時(shí)遷往美國(guó)，然后先后在哥倫比亞大學(xué)（Columbia University）獲得歷史學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位和博士學(xué)位，他后來成為哥倫比亞大學(xué)研究生院的教授和院長(zhǎng)。許多人把文化歷史領(lǐng)域的開創(chuàng)歸功于他。美國(guó)哲學(xué)學(xué)會(huì)（The American Philosophical Society）甚至設(shè)立了一個(gè)雅克?巴贊年度文化歷史獎(jiǎng)（Jacques Barzun Prize）。

????他在2001年接受C-Span電視頻道采訪時(shí)曾表示，他從來沒想過自己會(huì)在90多歲時(shí)進(jìn)入暢銷書排行榜。 他說：“我從事寫作已太久了，可能已屬非法，沒有人應(yīng)該像我這樣持續(xù)寫作這么久?！笔嗄旰?，他在104歲的高齡過世了。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：千牛絮、iDo98

90-something: Jacques Barzun

????At age 93, Jacques Martin Barzun published From Dawn to Decadence, a cultural history tracing Western life from 1500 to the present, which became a New York Times bestseller. The tome was a fitting capstone to Barzun's career, during which he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor and published more than 30 books on subjects ranging from science and medicine to literature, art, and classical music. Barzun's 1945 book Teacher in America influenced education in the U.S. for many years.

????Raised in Paris, Barzun moved to the U.S. in his teen years and earned a bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, where he was later a professor and dean of the graduate school. Many credit him with creating the field of cultural history. The American Philosophical Society awards an annual Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History.

????In a 2001 interview with C-Span, he said he never expected to be on the bestseller list in his 90s. "It's been a long stretch and probably illegal. Nobody ought to carry on as long as I have," he said. He died more than a decade later at age 104.