单词 | Barbara Tuchman |
例句 | What historian Barbara Tuchman called the emperor’s “wooden-headedness, in the special variety of religious mania” is often said to be why he didn’t order his army to wipe out the Spaniards immediately. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For the ultimate in medieval scuttlebutt, however, you can’t do better than Barbara Tuchman’s prizewinning 1978 history, “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.” “Game of Thrones’” overstuffed finale 2012-06-04T15:26:00Z The peerless Barbara Tuchman had no advanced degree or university post. Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Devereaux quotes historian Barbara Tuchman as referring to the card catalogue as “a companion all my working life.” What libraries lost when they threw out the card catalog 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z I appreciated Jon Meacham’s timely reminder in his May 24 Long View column of a previous plague, the Black Death of 14th-century Europe, as evoked by Barbara Tuchman in her book “A Distant Mirror.” Letters to the Editor 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Stiles and Barbara Tuchman jump to mind as his peers for making every page fascinating. Perspective | David McCullough helped America understand itself 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Historian Barbara Tuchman, in "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century," writes that Christianity provided "the matrix and law of medieval life, omnipresent, indeed compulsory." Culture, progress and the future: Can the West survive its own myths? 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Blinded by what Barbara Tuchman calls "the bellicose frivolity of senile empires," we are marching ominously toward war with Russia. Russia, the U.S. and the Ukraine war: Dance of death in an age of self-delusion 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Putin would be the latest leader to join what historian Barbara Tuchman described as “The March of Folly.” Opinion | Putin’s impending ‘march of folly’ in Ukraine 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Historian Barbara Tuchman wrote that in the wake of the Black Plague, survivors found themselves “neither destroyed nor improved,” and we are still in the process of identifying our change through negative definitions. Yui Yaegashi’s paintings are unlike any others I see in L.A. 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Woodward talked to Trump about a book, The Guns of August, by the historian Barbara Tuchman, about the causes of the first world war. The right man for the job: how Bob Woodward pinned Trump to the page 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Barbara Tuchman made that point in her 1978 book about that squalid century, “A Distant Mirror.” Opinion | Young leaders aren’t the solution. They’re wreaking havoc on the world. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z His caution in seeking to avoid nuclear war was shaped by his reading of Barbara Tuchman's book The Guns of August and its insights into the lessons of World War One. North Korea crisis: What does Kim Jong-un really want? - BBC News 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z He had recently read a book by historian Barbara Tuchman, “The Guns of August,” that described how a previous generation of statesmen had blundered into World War I, with nobody really understanding why. Opinion | What Trump should know about the Cuban Missile Crisis 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Devereaux quotes historian Barbara Tuchman as referring to the card catalog as “a companion all my working life.” ‘The Card Catalog’: New book reminds readers of a vanished world 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The late historian Barbara Tuchman tells the story of what happened a little more than four months after July 4, 1776. Founding Fathers knew ‘trade with all parts of the world’ is good 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z He quite rightly challenges Barbara Tuchman’s portrait of Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in her “Stilwell and the American Experience in China.” China and the United States: a long history of disappointments 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z So I just wrote what I wanted What helped me was reading great female historians such as CV Wedgwood and Barbara Tuchman, who wrote so wonderfully about war and politics. ‘Big books by blokes about battles’: Why is history still written mainly by men? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z On familiar terms with other society figures such as Brooke Astor and Happy Rockefeller, as well as with writers like Barbara Tuchman, Mrs. Newhouse was adept at courting support for many causes. Susan Newhouse, Who Guided Fresh Air Fund, Dies at 80 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z One hundred years ago we had “the guns of August”, in Barbara Tuchman’s resonant phrase. A century on, the first world war is still being played out 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Not long before October 1962, he had read Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August,” about how reactions to the murder of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand had escalated into World War I. Malaysian Airlines Flight: History's Lessons in Crisis Management 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z With what historian Barbara Tuchman scathingly described as “the bellicose frivolity of senile empires,” Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef, 83, presented Serbia with an ultimatum to which Serbia acceded in nearly all the particulars. Why World War I still matters 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z As the Pulitzer prize-winning historian Barbara Tuchman said of leaders who pursue folly, the most inexcusable are those who were warned at the time but went ahead for short-term gain. Further military intervention in Iraq? The very idea beggars belief 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Her model was the popular historian Barbara Tuchman, who made a point of never mentioning an outcome until its proper moment in the story. Pauline Maier, Historian Who Described Jefferson as ‘Overrated,’ Dies at 75 2013-08-14T03:35:17Z As the historian of folly, Barbara Tuchman, once said, even intelligent people seem incapable of learning from the errors of the past. The euro gets off scot-free in this debacle – just like the black rat 2012-06-07T19:40:01Z He is plowing through a massive biography of Tamerlane the Great and Barbara Tuchman's "March of Folly," her opus to nations' relentless pursuit of policy harmful to their interests. Pakistan's former envoy to U.S. caught in web of scandal 2012-01-06T14:28:48Z "A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests," began Barbara Tuchman in her book "The March of Folly." Europe's Leaders and the 'March of Folly' 2011-12-29T22:18:41Z Ever closer union falls squarely into the historian Barbara Tuchman's definition of a grand historical folly, "a policy demonstrably unworkable" and widely known as such at the time. Monetary union, always unworkable, has set in train a European disaster 2011-07-21T20:00:06Z So no, absent mass political psychosis of the kind historian Barbara Tuchman described in "The Guns of August," it's not going to happen. A party divorced from sanity 2011-07-21T00:31:00Z |
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