Volume 31, Number 5 · March 29, 1984
History Lessons
By Gordon S. Wood
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman
Knopf, 447 pp., $18.95
Barbara W. Tuchman is our foremost popular historian, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a best-selling author. She has achieved this popular success by writing good traditional narratives on numerous subjects from the origins of World War I and Stilwell's mission to China to fourteenth-century Europe. She writes history, she once said, not 'to instruct but to tell a story.'
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