Word: tuchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuban missile crisis, a session of the executive committee of the National Security Council breaks up at the White House. "After the meeting, the President, Ted Sorensen, Kenny O'Donnell, and I sat in his office and talked. A short time before, the President had read Barbara Tuchman's book The Guns of August, and he talked about the miscalculations of the Germans, the Russians, the Austrians, the French and the British. They somehow seemed to tumble into war, he said, through stupidity, individual idiosyncrasies, misunderstandings, and personal complexes of inferiority and grandeur. He did not want anyone...
...back." Bobby was called a "claim jumper" and a "cow-bird." Said a student: "Hawks are bad enough. We don't need chickens." Commented New Hampshire Attorney Eugene S. Daniell Jr.: "It is something like trying to steal another dog's bone." Pulitzer-prizewinning Historian Barbara Tuchman (The Guns of August), whose daughter Jessica worked for McCarthy, fired off a telegram accusing Bobby of "cynicism and opportunism" and voicing "outrage" at "Kennedy's indecent rush to exploit another's efforts." One of the things that prompted Kennedy's belated decision to take on Johnson...
...fact, in this series Soutine so abandoned his carefully acquired art-school disciplines that he apparently frightened even himself; in later years, he renounced his Ceret paintings, referring to them as having been "painted with my fingers." As Los Angeles Curator Maurice Tuchman tells it: "Soutine would install his mistress in a cafe, go in search of a Ceret picture he had heard some dealer owned, exchange a new picture for an old one, and ritually, happily destroy...
...BARBARA TUCHMAN...
Barbara W. Tuchman, D.LET., historian. Breaking a hitherto unassailable male monopoly in the writing of military history, you produced in "The Guns of August" a model marriage of an accurate historical account written in fascinating and compelling narrative...