THE PLEDGE
Book ID/图书代码： 07042010B39828
English Summary/英文概要： For more than a century, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has been a central part of the American Experience. And perhaps because of its ubiquity, this simple flag salute has served not only as a unifying ritual but also as a lightning rod for bitter controversy.
Congress’s 1954 decision to add “under God” to the Pledge has made it the focus of three U.S. Supreme Court cases and at least one other landmark appellate decision. The debate continues today, but along with it exists a widely held admiration and support for this simple affirmation of our shared patriotism.
As Jeffrey Owen Jones and Peter Meyer show in their illuminating history, this brief salute to the flag has had an almost magical power to galvanize people’s deepest feelings and beliefs about who we are and ought to be as a nation. In that sense, the story of the Pledge of Allegiance is the story of America and the American people.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 长达一个多世纪，背诵效忠誓言一直是身为美国人的体验的核心部分。也许因为它的无所不在，简单的向国旗敬礼不但成为一种统一化的仪式，同样也广受争议。国会1954年决定把‘在神之下’加入誓言，结果令此成为三宗美国最高法院案件的焦点，并促成了至少一个有里程碑意义的上诉决定。争论持续到了今天，但伴随它的也有广泛的、对其表现的共同的爱国主义精神的敬佩和支持。
如Jeffrey Owen Jones和Peter Meyer在这本启发人的历史书中所写，简单的向国旗致敬有着近乎神奇的力量，它能激发人们心底的情感和信仰――我们是谁，作为一个国家我们应该怎样。从这个意义上来说效忠誓言的故事即是美国和美国人民的故事。(兼职翻译-SXX)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Jeffrey Owen Jones是一名编辑、电视剧和电影的制作人、记者和老师。他毕业于威廉姆斯大学和明德学院，曾因在纽约当地某大众电视台的工作表现而获得艾美奖。他曾在《Smithsonian》杂志上发表过文章。他死于2007年。
Peter Meyer曾是《生活》杂志的新闻编辑，写过许多非小说类作品，包括受专家好评的《耶鲁谋杀案》、《无辜者之死》、《黑暗的执着》。Meyer还获得过密苏里大学的新闻奖和罗伯特·肯尼迪基金，作为对他报道的肯定。他的作品在全国性出版物中发表，如《哈珀杂志》、《名利场》、《纽约》、《生活》和《人物》等杂志。
JEFFREY OWEN JONES worked as an editor, television and film producer, journalist, and teacher. A graduate of Williams College and Middlebury College, he received an Emmy Award for his work in New York local public television and had been published in Smithsonian magazine. He died in 2007.
PETER MEYER is a former news editor of Life magazine and the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed The Yale Murder, Death of Innocence, and Dark Obsession. Meyer has also won journalism awards from the University of Missouri and the Robert Kennedy Foundation for his reporting and writing for such national publications as Harper’s Magazine, Vanity Fair, New York, Life, Time, and People.
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