影响社会变迁的方式有很多种,诸如政治制度、经济模式、人口结构、武力战争、种族信仰、环境气候等等。然而以图书为代表的文化产品,同样拥有巨大的能量,可以影响、乃至改变历史的路向。在社会进程的特定历史节点上,图书作为文化载体,其威力丝毫不亚于枪炮。读《作为武器的图书》,令人真正认识到图书作为精神武器,不论是在过去、现在还是未来,都具有强大的杀伤力。本书作者约翰·B.亨奇是美国图书收藏家,他 There are many ways to influence social change, such as political system, economic model, population structure, war of war, ethnic belief, environmental climate and so on. However, cultural products represented by books also have enormous energy that can influence and even change the course of history. At certain historical nodes of the social process, books, as cultural carriers, are as powerful as guns. Reading Books as Weapons truly realizes that books, as spiritual weapons, are powerful lethal in the past, present and future. John B. Henge, the book’s author, is a book collector in the United States