Word: tuchman
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...precisely defined the ingredients necessary for a society to generate innovation. Historian Barbara Tuchman notes that the 12th and 13th centuries enjoyed "one of civilization's great bursts of development," with the introduction of the compass, the spinning wheel and the windmill. Mid-19th century Europe and the U.S. enjoyed similar explosions. But why? Perhaps necessity is indeed the mother of invention, and the demands of the current energy and environmental crises may yet revive the spirit of the Yankee tinkerer...
...Holroyd on Lytton Strachey, Francis Steegmuller on Cocteau and Quentin Bell on Virginia Woolf. Moreover, the past year has brought a host of distinguished and bestselling additions to the collection: William Manchester island-hopping with Douglas MacArthur, Edmund Morris galloping up San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt and Barbara Tuchman wading through the wars and devastations of the 14th century with the Baron Enguerrand de Coucy. No wonder Holroyd exults: "Biography has come...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror,Barbara W. Tuchman Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills The Eighth Day of Creation, Horace Freeland Judson The Powers That Be,David Halberstam The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky To Set the Record Straight. John J. Sirica