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Practicing History: Selected Essays

✍ Scribed by Tuchman, Barbara W

Book ID: 109830650
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2014
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 492 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780345303639

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✦ Synopsis

Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize--winning epic The Guns of August and other classic books, Barbara W. Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian's craft in these perceptive, essential essays.

From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Spanning more than four decades of writing in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, The Nation, and The Saturday Evening Post, Tuchman weighs in on a range of eclectic topics, from Israel and Mao Tse-tung to a Freudian reading of Woodrow Wilson. This is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history."

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