The March Of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam - Brossura

Tuchman, Barbara W.

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ISBN 10: 0349106746 ISBN 13: 9780349106748

Casa editrice: Abacus, 1990

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

A Tuchman book always teems with colourful characters... observed with a relentless and unforgiving gaze... and what an eye for detail and flair for language she possesses! (London Review of Books)

Admirers of her earlier works will find Barbara Tuchman's familiar virtues on display. She is lucid, painstaking and highly intelligent. She is also highly expert. (Sunday Times)

Few historians, if any, write as well as Barbara Tuchman (J.H. Plumb)

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'Among contemporary historians... Barbara Tuchman stands supreme' - The Times

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0349106746
• ISBN 13: 9780349106748
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576