Word: tuchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
...Barbara Tuchman's lament is a well-intentioned reminder of our reluctance to honor our artists and thinkers. But the comparison is unfortunate. Twain was a humorist and satirist who was as much taken in by the Gilded Age as he was critical of it; Hugo was a lyric poet and epic novelist-and, what's more, a political hero. His exile was a symbol of opposition to tyranny...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Singers, Whitney Balliett In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan ∙To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky...