与一次战争、一场疾风暴雨般的政治运动甚至一次骚乱相比,书籍一般都难以产生那么大的作用。但是有时候,一本书的确能掀起一场运动,引起社会的改革,甚至重大的改革。就在美国的历史上,出生在英国的美国政论家托马斯·潘恩的一本只有五十页的小册子《常识》,于1776年1月出版后,几个月里即销售 Books generally have less of a role to play than a war, a stormy political campaign, or even a riot. Sometimes, however, a book can really start a movement that leads to social reforms and even major reforms. Just in the history of the United States, a 50-page booklet, “Common Sense,” by Thomas Paine, a British-born political scientist, was published in January 1776 and sold for months