A01=Barbara W. Tuchman
Author_Barbara W. Tuchman
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Category=NHT
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Product details
- ISBN 9780349106748
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 1990
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own intersts. Across the march of thirty centuries, Tuchman brings to life the dramatic events which constitute folly's hallmark in government; the fall of Troy, symbolic prototype of freely chosen disaster; the Protestant secession, provoked by six decades of spectacularly corrupt papcy; the British forfeiture of the American colonies; and America's catastrophic thirty year involvement with vietnam. The March of Folly, a work of profound and poignant relevance today, is breathtaking in its scope, originality and vision, and represents the writing of Barbara Tuchman at it's finest.
Barbara Tuchman is a double Pulizter Prize winning historian who has writen some of the seminal popular historical works of our age. She died in 1989.
