主题：【原创】读书偶感：遗憾自己年轻时没看的一些书 -- 明日天涯

我读的时候年龄又太小，完全是当历史故事来读的。书里面从远古人类狩猎的传说，一直写到二次大战；讲历史事件、历史人物、各种宗教的起源和发展，...，都是在讲故事。如果说有“对历史的歪曲”，我当时决不可能搞清楚，抱歉。如果现在读，领会肯定就不一样了。

你如果想读，可以到大学图书馆或北图找找看。这本《世界史》曾经在40-60年代，20年里被美国很多大学选作世界史教科书。我顺便查了一下主要作者C.Hayes的简略生平。

Hayes, Carlton Joseph Huntley, 1882-1964, American historian and diplomat, b. Afton, N.Y. He began teaching history at Columbia in 1907, and from 1935 to his retirement in 1950 he held the Seth Low chair of history. He was noted for his studies in nationalism, including the Historical Evolution of Modern Nationalism (1931). Hayes was U.S. ambassador to Spain from May, 1942, to Mar., 1945, a period recorded in his Wartime Mission in Spain, 1942-1945 (1945). Though some criticized him as being too friendly with Franco, it was generally held that he played an important role in preventing an outright Spanish alliance with the Axis in World War II. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Hayes became a leading Catholic layman and was long co-chairman (1925-45) of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.