耄耋之年：雅克?巴贊

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

????巴贊在巴黎長大，十幾歲時遷往美國，然后先后在哥倫比亞大學（Columbia University）獲得歷史學學士學位和博士學位，他后來成為哥倫比亞大學研究生院的教授和院長。許多人把文化歷史領域的開創歸功于他。美國哲學學會（The American Philosophical Society）甚至設立了一個雅克?巴贊年度文化歷史獎（Jacques Barzun Prize）。

????他在2001年接受C-Span電視頻道采訪時曾表示，他從來沒想過自己會在90多歲時進入暢銷書排行榜。 他說：“我從事寫作已太久了，可能已屬非法，沒有人應該像我這樣持續寫作這么久。”十多年后，他在104歲的高齡過世了。（財富中文網）

????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.