Barbara W. Tuchman

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Barbara W. Tuchman


Born
in New York, New York, The United States
January 30, 1912

Died
February 06, 1989

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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, historian, won a Pulitzer Prize for The Guns of August (1962) and for Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971).

As an author, Tuchman focused on popular production. Her clear, dramatic storytelling covered topics as diverse as the 14th century and World War I and sold millions of copies.

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Average rating: 4.12 · 161,460 ratings · 8,742 reviews · 54 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Guns of August

4.18 avg rating — 85,125 ratings — published 1962 — 202 editions
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A Distant Mirror: The Calam...

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The Proud Tower: A Portrait...

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The March of Folly: From Tr...

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The Zimmermann Telegram

4.05 avg rating — 5,210 ratings — published 1958 — 104 editions
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Stilwell and the American E...

4.16 avg rating — 3,771 ratings — published 1971 — 93 editions
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The First Salute : View of ...

3.94 avg rating — 2,965 ratings — published 1988 — 71 editions
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Bible and Sword: England an...

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Practicing History:  Select...

3.96 avg rating — 837 ratings — published 1981 — 35 editions
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“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman

“Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
Barbara Tuchman

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