A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.   During the summer of 1972—a few short months after Nixon’s legendary visit to China—master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements. The resulting reportage was one of the first evenhanded portrayals of Chinese culture that Americans had ever read.   Tuchman’s observations capture the people as they lived, from workers in the city and provincial party bosses to farmers, scientists, and educators. She demonstrates the breadth and scope of her expertise in discussing the alleviation of famine, misery, and exploitation; the distortion of cultural and historical inheritances into ubiquitous slogans; news media, schools, housing, and transportation; and Chairman Mao’s techniques for reasserting the Revolution. This edition also includes Tuchman’s “fascinating” (The New York Review of Books) essay, “If Mao Had Come to Washington in 1945”—a tantalizing piece of speculation on a proposed meeting between Mao and Roosevelt that would have changed the course of postwar history.   “Shrewdly observed . . . Tuchman enters another plea for coolness, intelligence and rationality in American Asian policies. One can hardly disagree.”—The New York Times Book Review

Notes from China,

Politics & Social Sciences

Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim

Social Sciences

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Good hardcover with fair DJ. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear/fade. Light damp stain on rear top cover. Binding cracked slightly but still intact. Dust jacket shows edge wear with edge tears and creases.

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Lucid examination of the critical moves of August, 1914--the carefully-planned strategies, first bloody clashes, and shocking realizations of prolonged battles

The Guns of August

History

Americas

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Random House]

"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started, why, and why it could have been stopped but wasn't. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, THE GUNS OF AUGUST will not be forgotten.

The guns of August

Military

BANTAM BOOKS

Examines the irrationalities of governments through analysis of four crises of history--the fall of Troy, the Renaissance popes' provocation of the Protestant Reformation, Britain's loss of the American colonies, and America's involvement in Vietnam

The March of Folly from Troy to Vietnam (G K Hall Large Print Book Series)

G.K.Hall & Co.

Looks at the American Revolution, reviewing key events from 1776 to 1781 and assessing the repercussions for America, England, France, and other nations

The First Salute/a View of the American Revolution

Thorndike Pr

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in a brilliantly original way, placing the war in the historical context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland.

The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution: Library Edition

Blackstone Pub

Tuchman here analyzes the pervasive folly of governments through the ages, meaning their pursuit of policies contrary to their own interests despite feasible alternatives. She uses as examples the Trojan War, the Renaissance popes provoking Protestantism, the British losing the American colonies, and America in Vietnam.

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Library Edition

In January 1917, when World War I was deadlocked, the British intercepted a secret telegram from Berlin that they knew would finally bring America into the war. How they put it to use without revealing they had broken the German codes makes for an incredible true tale of espionage and intrigue.

The Zimmermann Telegram: Library Edition

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