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Practicing history : selected essays / by Barbara W. Tuchman.
LIBRA D13 .T83 1981
Available from offsite location
LIBRA D13 .T83 1981
Available from offsite location
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating D13 .T83 1981
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- History, Modern--20th century.
- History, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1981.
- Summary:
- 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. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history."
- Contents:
- In search of history
- When does history happen?
- History by the ounce
- The historian as artist
- The historian's opportunity
- Problems in writing the biography of General Stilwell
- The houses of research
- Biography as a prism of history
- Japan: a clinical note
- Campaign train
- What Madrid reads
- "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead"
- The final solution
- Israel: land of unlimited impossibilities
- Woodrow Wilson on Freud's couch
- How we entered World War I
- Israel's swift sword
- If Mao had come to Washington
- The assimilationist dilemma: Ambassador Morgenthau's story
- Kissinger: self-portrait
- Mankind's better moments
- Is history a guide to the future?
- Vietnam
- When, why, and how to get out
- Coalition in Vietnam- not worth one more life
- The citizen versus the military
- Historical clues to present discontents
- Generalship
- Why policy-makers do not listen
- Watergate and the presidency
- Should we abolish the presidency?
- A fear of the remedy
- A letter to the House of Representatives
- Defusing the presidency
- On our birthday- America as idea.
- ISBN:
- 0394520866 :
- OCLC:
- 7460683
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