Alix's review
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Alix's review
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman
Alix's review
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Written by a two-time Pulitzer-prize winner. Covers:
1. The Trohans
2. The Renaissance Popes & the Protestant Succession
3. British Lose America
4. Viet Nam
Compares how the choices leaders make don't always result in the end they were trying to achieve. And an exposition on some of the blindness - in each of these four cases, they should have been able to tell that their course of action was NOT going to achieve what they wanted, but they persisted anyway (hence the March of Folly).
1. The Trohans
2. The Renaissance Popes & the Protestant Succession
3. British Lose America
4. Viet Nam
Compares how the choices leaders make don't always result in the end they were trying to achieve. And an exposition on some of the blindness - in each of these four cases, they should have been able to tell that their course of action was NOT going to achieve what they wanted, but they persisted anyway (hence the March of Folly).
