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By Barbara W. Tuchman
Evaluate "Persuades and Enthralls...I can think about no larger primer for the nonexpert who needs to benefit history." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Provocative, constant, and wonderfully Readable, an occasion to not be neglected by means of historical past buffs." -- The Baltimore sunlight From the interior Flap From considerate items at the historian's position to impressive insights into America's earlier and current to trenchant observations at the foreign scene, Barbara W. Tuchman seems to be at heritage in a distinct approach and attracts classes from what she sees. here's a fantastic physique of labor, the tale of an entire life spent "practicing history."
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Perhaps it was the freshness of the experience, perhaps the fact that I was writing for readers who, as I conceived them, probably knew little or nothing about the country and had no emotional tie to it. I wanted to convey the feeling, the facts, and the historical nature and meaning of the new nation all in one article. One does not always achieve one’s purpose in a given attempt, but this one, I believe, succeeded. Subsequently Fodor used it as the Introduction to their Guide to Israel for several years.
Mine was deep in among the 942s (British History, that is) and I could roam at liberty through the rich stacks, taking whatever I wanted. The experience was marvelous, a word I use in its exact sense meaning full of marvels. The happiest days of my intellectual life, until I began writing history again some fifteen years later, were spent in the stacks at Widener. My daughter Lucy, class of ’61, once said to me that she could not enter the labyrinth of Widener’s stacks without feeling that she ought to carry a compass, a sandwich, and a whistle.
However, on reviewing a book on Japan by a French historian, I was thrilled to receive from the author a letter addressed “Chère consoeur” (the feminine of confrère, or as we would say, “colleague”). I felt admitted into an international circle of professionals. This, and the $40 paid for my first piece in Pacific Affairs, with which I bought a gramophone and a record of “Un bel di” from Madame Butterfly, made me feel I had begun a career. On returning to America, I tried to express something of what I had learned and thought about the Japanese in the little piece reprinted here.