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NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ American Singers, Whitney Balliett ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan
...Barbara Tuchman, historian, deploring lack of American recognition of the arts: "Every French town has an Avenue Victor Hugo. We never have a Mark Twain Street...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
...success of disaster entertainment is rooted deep in the concerns and apprehensions of the American psyche." his pessimistic The Culture of Narcissism, argues that modern civilization is beginning to show signs of the breakdown that marked the end of the medieval world-the same point made by Barbara Tuchman in her bestseller A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. As Lasch tells it, disastermania and the selfishness of the "Me" decade indicate that humanity has lost faith in the future and awaits some kind of ending...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...