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...simply begging to be told--the American missionary experience in China in the first half of this century. What's more, he's done it in a way which masterfully brings together two awkwardly coexistent branches of the historical novel tradition. Combining the solid factual background of authors like Tuchman or even Michener with the torrid, and sometime, sordid, human details of John Jakes and Harold Robbins. Hersey manages both to inform and to entertain throughout almost 700 pages. And he weaves his complex mosaic around one central, compelling theme--the hidden disaster embedded in the "offer" by the West...
...Widener is Harvard's distinction and pride," says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara V. Tuchman '33. "Yet, a library can be no better than its program of collecting, which must be alert, uninterrupted, and unfailing, and--needless--to say--reliably funded."Oscar Handlin...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman '33 will be among 11 man and women expected to receive honorary degrees at Harvard's 333rd Commencement exercises Thursday, the Crimson has learned...
...Tuchman, whose most recent historical work, The March of Folly, is riding high on the best-seller list, said yesterday in a telephone interview. "It's truly a pleasure, delight." Tuchman said she is planning no other activities while at Harvard...
...Tuchman, who receives her degree one year after she celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her graduation from Radcliffe College, has been vying for an honorary degree for some time, a University official said yesterday. The official, who requested anonymity, added that Tuchman's friends have put her up for nomination for several years...