The last book you're reading in this course

本课要求大家读的最后本书
is by a great journalist, Nick Lemann

是一位大记者写的·尼古拉斯·莱曼
It's called Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

书名是《救赎:内战的最后一战》
There seems to be a contest right now

现在似乎掀起了一股
in writing about and publishing about the violence of Reconstruction

写作和出版发行重建时期暴力事件的热潮
It's really been discovered by American publishers

美国的出版商们是最先发现的
and certainly by American writers

美国的作家们当然更清楚
There are no less than three new books out

至少有三本新书如关于
on either the Colfax Massacre, which we'll talk about in a minute,

科尔法克斯大屠杀过一下我们具体讲
or what Lemann does mostly in his book,

以及莱曼书的主旨