Word: tuchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BARBARA TUCHMAN, U.S. historian: George Washington. He did a marvelous job, achieving his objective, surmounting incredible opposition and obstacles of lethargy and cowardice...
Historian Barbara Tuchman offered the appropriate judgment: "Could anyone, remembering past attitudes, look at that picture of President Nixon and Chairman Mao in twin armchairs, with slightly queasy smiles bravely worn to conceal their mutual discomfort, and not feel a stunned sense that truth is indeed weirder than fiction?" The title of her address: "Why Policymakers...
...Listen." Both Secretary of State William Rogers and Presidential Assistant Henry Kissinger, who might well have agreed with Mrs. Tuchman's observation, were too busy to attend...
...brilliant historian once described the American participation in a controversial war: "In the lives of the American people," she wrote, "it was the end of innocence." The writer is Barbara Tuchman, the book The Zimmermann Telegram, and the event described, the American entry into World War I. The U.S., it would appear, is capable of losing and recovering its innocence not once, but over and over again...
Responsible writers, such as Barbara Tuchman, will provide the definition of the gap, for just as their bewilderment is serious, their interest is sincere. Only when they can study China intimately can it be explained to the other bewildered, interested Americans...