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	Barbara Tuchman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912– February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author.
		Tuchman, daughter of a banker, received her BA from Radcliffe College in 1933 and worked as a journalist for a number of years before turning to writing books.
		Tuchman was the author of books which conspired to be more popular than the established classics of the field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Tuchman (342 words)

	rev_tuchmanb.html
		In The March of Folly the late Barbara Tuchman (one of America's foremost historians) examines an interesting facet of history, namely the tendency of governments to act stubbornly and perversely against their own best interests (this tendency is the "folly" referred to by the title).
		To illustrate folly in human history, Tuchman has chosen four "case studies": 1)The decision of the Trojans to bring the Trojan horse into their city, 2)The provocation of the Protestant uprising by the Renaissance Popes, 3)The loss of the American colonies by the British, and 4)The failures of U.S. policy in Vietnam.
		The decision of the Trojans, upon being presented with the wooden horse, to bring that fateful object into the city is presented by Tuchman as a sort of archetype for all the folly that has been perpetrated by governments since.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/3086/rev_tuchmanb.html (836 words)

	.:: Bibliotheek van Fokke en Jori. ab hic ad lunam et retro: Auteur ::.
		Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City.
		Tuchman was praised for her lucid style, narrative power and portrayal of the protagonists in world dramas as believable human beings.
		Tuchman was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, whose subjects varied from the Trojan War to the Vietnam War, from description of medieval daily life to the portraits of world leaders of the First World War.
	www.jori-fokke.net /auteur.php?id=395 (763 words)

	Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
		Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for non-fiction in her historical books on men of war and on the brink of war.
		Barbara W. Tuchman died of complications of a stroke on February 6, 1989, at her home in Cos Cob, Connecticut.
		Barbara Wertheim was born on January 30, 1912, in New York City, to Alma and Maurice Wertheim, both of their families were distinguished.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/tuchman.html (480 words)

	Barbara Tuchman Biography / Biography of Barbara Tuchman Biography Biography
		Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City on January 30, 1912, the daughter of Maurice and Alma (Morganthau) Wertheim.
		Barbara Tuchman Biography / Biography of Barbara Tuchman Biography Biography
		Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989) was best known for her works on 20th-century wars although she also wrote on 14th-century France.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-barbara-tuchman (233 words)

	First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman
		Tuchman stresses the importance of smuggling in sustaining the first phases of the conflict, the role and importance of an American naval force and, in the end, the decisive weight of French naval supremacy in the siege of Yorktown.
		Tuchman's family played such a large role in recent American history: her grandfather was Henry Morgenthau Sr., who was President Wilson's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; her uncle served as FDR's secretary of the treasury; and her father, Maurice Wertheim, bought "The Nation" magazine from the pacifist Oswald Garrison Villard.
		Tuchman speaks of the 1581 Oath of Abjuration (the Dutch Declaration of Independence), the defeat of the Spanish Armada later in that decade, and the importance of two events in 1609 -- the discovery of the Hudson River ("America's Rhine") and the founding of the Bank of Amsterdam.
	www.book-summary-review.com /First-Salute-0345336674.htm (1735 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Practicing History, by Barbara W. Tuchman
		...Tuchman criticizes the idea that "History is properly the interpretation of past events in terms of their consequences, and in the light shed upon them by present knowledge and present values...
		...Tuchman was three years out of Radcliffe, contrasts the impromptu crowds which gathered to welcome the President on a swing through Manhattan with the persisting quiet that greeted the motorcade after it turned onto Park Avenue...
		...Tuchman reflects on "The Craft" of history, by which she usually means the writing of her major books...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V73I4P82-1.htm (1927 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The March of Folly, by Barbara W. Tuchman
		...Tuchman ascribes the cruelty of "the new political order in Vietnam" to American intervention is that to believe otherwise might lead to the dangerous conclusion "that the American attempt to prevent a Communist domination of the area was not without moral justification," to quote the final words of Guenter Lewy's America in Vietnam...
		...Tuchman ridicules this notion, and Draper, despite his stated belief that it is not folly to fight for what one believes to be vital interests, applauds her for it: Only in this segment was I con- vinced that her organizing concept was fully warranted...
		...Tuchman's occasionally sententious moralizing, as when she speaks of the "rampant greed and grab and uninhibited self-gratification" of the Renaissance princes of the Church...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V77I6P73-1.htm (1921 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
		Barbara Tuchman introduces a nobleman, Enguerrand de Coucy (1340-1397), a "whole man in a fractured time," who takes the reader through the century and gives a personalized context through which to understand the events and attitudes of the day.
		Tuchman closes her tragic survey with the battle of Nicopolis, when the pretensions of European chivalry - with its love of silks, guilt armor and traveling pavilions - are crushed by determined Turk foot soldiers.
		Ms Tuchman wrote neither an apology nor a glorification of the time; rather she let the period speak for itself with a voice that is both informative and entertaining.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345349571?v=glance (3153 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Zimmermann Telegram
		Tuchman shrugged off the commonly held elementary notions that it was the sinking of the Lusitania, or the declaration of German unrestricted submarine warfare that caused the U.S. to declare its belligerency.
		Tuchman was persuasive in her argument that it was ultimately the Zimmermann Telegram that caused Wilson to ask Congress for belligerency.
		Tuchman centers her story on the apex of a single article of communication (the telegram) and expands from there.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1842122797 (1609 words)

	Book Reviews - The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
		Tuchman carefully analyses the events which led to the outbreak of war, and we are left with a picture of inevitability.
		Tuchman describes the battle of Liege, where the Germans used their huge siege guns against the city’s forts, and then the march through Belgium.
		Tuchman covers the two major theatres of war, the European (or Western) front and the Russian (or eastern) front.
	www.abbottsystems.com /reviews.html (899 words)

	Barbara Tuchman
		Tuchman, Barbara (1912-89), American author, self-trained historian, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
		Tuchman was born in New York City, and educated at Radcliffe College.
		In her later years Tuchman was a lecturer at Harvard University and at the U.S. Naval War College.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/tuchman.html (211 words)

	The Nation: Barbara Tuchman. (obituary)@ HighBeam Research
		We didn't always agree with Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, who died of a stroke February 6, nor she with us.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:7680681&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (173 words)

	Reason and Rhyme : Barbara Tuchman and Governmental Follies
		Barbara Tuchman, if you didn't know, was one of the 20th century's premiere historians, whose incisive analysis of historical events from ancient times to the present took the form of a variety of exceptionally readable books, including one for which she won the Pulitzer Prize.
		So there I was, reading Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly, in the segment where she discusses government policy in the Vietnam war, and getting a disquieting sensation of seeing similar behavior with respect to Iraq...
		I highly recommend A Distant Mirror for its look at 14th century Europe, and The Guns of August exploring events in World War I. I have most recently read The March of Folly, where she explores instances of folly in governmental policy over the ages.
	www.johnmnovak.com /2002/11/000008.php (579 words)

	Barbara Tuchman
		Writer Barbara Tuchman was born in New York City on January 30, 1912.
		Tuchman worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Pacific Relations in New York and Tokyo from 1935-1935 and was an editorial assistant at The Nation, a magazine owned by her father.
		In 1937 she went to Madrid and reported on the Spanish Civil War.
	www.nhptv.org /kn/itv/mcd/tuchman.htm (165 words)

	Barbara Tuchman
		Barbara Tuchman was acclaimed for her prize-winning books on war.
		Though there was sometimes quibbling about her accuracy on minor points, all agreed that Tuchman possessed a unique ability to bring history to life and make it accessible to all.
		From The Guns of August (1962) to Stillwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 (1971) -- both winners of the Pulitzer Prize -- to A Distant Mirror (1978) and The First Salute (1988), Tuchman managed to produce books that appealed to both academics and the public.
	www.multied.com /Bio/people/Tuchman.html (87 words)

	Practicing History: Selected Essays
		A "crash course" from Barbara Tuchman is possibly an experience of the most concise, informative and comprehensive summary on a subject you'll find.
		This book is a collection of essays written by the noted Historian, Barbara W. Tuchman (e.g.
		Tuchman challenges the budding historian to not only collect facts, dates and events, but rather to write History so the end product is as engaging as modern novel, BUT, based upon excellent scholarship.
	e-acting.com /isbn0345303636.html (487 words)

	Ideal Reader Barbara Tuchman
		This biography of Tuchman contains quotes, a bibliography of her works, and some related links.
		In this letter to the New York Review of Books, Tuchman complains about a review of one of her books that it ran.
		Here is a biography of Tuchman from the Jewish Virtual Library.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/007256606x/student_view0/barbara_tuchman.html (298 words)

	Barbara Tuchman's The March of Folly - Objectivism Online Forum
		I mention this in closing, because The Guns of August is a rather tragic book to read, but I don't fault Tuchman for this: World War I is perhaps the big tragedy of the 20th century: one that foreshadowed (and had a role in bringing on) much of the later suffering of that century.
		And also, Tuchman does point out the times that the leading men on the spot could have done differently than they did.
		I would say Tuchman's books are worth reading, but critically.
	www.objectivismonline.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=2253 (628 words)

	Tuchman, Barbara -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		More results on "Tuchman, Barbara" when you join.
		One of the so-called Fourteen Auxiliary Saints, or Holy Helpers, who are venerated for the effectiveness of their prayers on behalf of human necessities, Barbara was one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages, though scholars doubt her existence.
		In the 1940s and 1950s American geneticist Barbara McClintock discovered that chromosomes can break off from neighboring chromosomes and recombine to create unique genetic combinations in a process known as crossing over, a radical break from accepted genetic doctrine of the time.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313901?tocId=9313901 (552 words)

	Global-Investor Bookshop : Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
		Barbara W. Tuchman achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
		Tuchman is able to evoke both the enormous pattern of the tragedy and the minutiae which make it human."
		Tuchman’s last book before her death in February 1989.
	books.global-investor.com /books/16918.htm?ginPtrCode=00000&identifier= (325 words)

	Weaselcat Quote Source by Author (Barbara W. Tuchman)
		Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), xviii.
		Weaselcat Quote Source by Author (Barbara W. Tuchman)
		History is made by the documents that survive and these lean heavily on crisis and calamity, crime and misbehavior, because such things are the subject matter of the documentary process — of lawsuits, treaties, moralists' denunciations, literary satire, papal Bulls.
	members.cox.net /hillsideave/atuchman.html (71 words)

	Barbara Tuchman - The Guns of August
		Tuchman adds colorful description to her narrative, but she does not wander from the facts in doing so.
		The inability of the commanders to see the errors of their plans, and their unwillingness to change their plans when the flaws became evident, cemented the horrible mistakes into permanent wounds.
		Every thought expressed, every comment about the environment or the weather or the attitudes of the players, were all taken from real-life accounts, diaries, letters, and other sources.
	www.dallas.net /~twiggz/r_gunsofaugust.html (634 words)

	Barbara Tuchman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author.
		Tuchman, daughter of a banker, received her BA from Radcliffe College in 1933 and worked as a journalist for a number of years before turning to writing books.
		Tuchman was the author of books which conspired to be more popular than the established classics of the field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_W._Tuchman (342 words)

	The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution (Barbara Tuchman)
		Fans of Barbara Tuchman's will not be disappointed; those who haven't read any of her works are in for a treat!
		The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution (Barbara Tuchman)
		In her usual clear language, Tuchman presents a description of the methods of naval warfare and diplomacy in the 18th century and of the ascent of Holland as a major naval power, and paints vivid portraits of the major characters — figures such as Washington, Rodney, Rochambeau, de Grasse and Cornwallis.
	dannyreviews.com /h/The_First_Salute.html (128 words)

	The First Salute by Barbara Tuchman
		This evening I finished reading The First Salute by Barbara Tuchman.
		Tuchman has a very strong ability to shape history into a narrative, one of the things I like so much about her books.
		Her approach in this book is to look at the Revolutionary War as a part of great power conflict - particularly between England, France and the Netherlands.
	homepage.mac.com /wrk/iblog/C592819435/E670390112 (206 words)

	Barbara Tuchman Biography at People Search Engines
		In the 1930s Barbara Tuchman covered the Spanish Civil War for the U.S. magazine The Nation.
		Barbara Tuchman - Search free information on famous people and celebrities around the world
		Although Tuchman was not an academically trained historian, she wrote many history books that appealed to a wide audience.
	www.people-search-engines.com /famous-people-search/index.php?alpha=2&detail=2116 (219 words)

	Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman
		In The Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman concentrates on society rather than the state.
		"Tuchman [was] a distinguished historian who [wrote] her books with a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish.
		"Tuchman proved in The Guns of August that she could write better military history than most men.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?0345405013 (254 words)

	First Salute by Barbara W. Tuchman
		Tuchman stresses the importance of smuggling in sustaining the first phases of the conflict, the role and importance of an American naval force and, in the end, the decisive weight of French naval supremacy in the siege of Yorktown.
		Tuchman's family played such a large role in recent American history: her grandfather was Henry Morgenthau Sr., who was President Wilson's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; her uncle served as FDR's secretary of the treasury; and her father, Maurice Wertheim, bought "The Nation" magazine from the pacifist Oswald Garrison Villard.
		Tuchman speaks of the 1581 Oath of Abjuration (the Dutch Declaration of Independence), the defeat of the Spanish Armada later in that decade, and the importance of two events in 1609 -- the discovery of the Hudson River ("America's Rhine") and the founding of the Bank of Amsterdam.
	www.book-summary-review.com /First-Salute-0345336674.htm (1741 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Practicing History, by Barbara W. Tuchman
		...Tuchman criticizes the idea that "History is properly the interpretation of past events in terms of their consequences, and in the light shed upon them by present knowledge and present values...
		...Tuchman was three years out of Radcliffe, contrasts the impromptu crowds which gathered to welcome the President on a swing through Manhattan with the persisting quiet that greeted the motorcade after it turned onto Park Avenue...
		...Tuchman reflects on "The Craft" of history, by which she usually means the writing of her major books...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V73I4P82-1.htm (1927 words)

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