The Revolutionary

摘要

Michael bloomberg was just a year old when,in 1943, the author Esther Forbes published a children's novel, "Johnny Tremain," the tale of a young Revolutionary-era silversmith apprentice in Boston on the eve of war. The book would come to dominate Bloomberg's imaginative life. As a boy growing up in Medford, Mass., he recalls, "I must have read it 50 times." In the great rhetorical scene at the heart of the story, the revolutionary James Otis addresses a small tavern gathering that includes Sam Adams, John Adams and John Hancock, reminding the nascent rebels that their fight is not only national but global. America would make war, Otis said, so that "there shall be no more tyranny." Between deep sips of grog, he went on: "The peasants of France, the serfs of Russia. Hardly more than animals now.