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STILWELL AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA, 1911-45 by Barbara W. Tuchman. 621 pages. Macmillan...
...long as anyone can remember, China has puzzled Americans. U.S. feelings have been a mixture of fascination, affection-and disastrous delusion. During World War II the result was complete military failure in China as well as a legacy of bitterness between China and the U.S. So argues Barbara Tuchman. The value of her engrossing popular history is that it provides a kind of psychological purgative...
Particular Hubris. Enter Barbara Tuchman's Joseph Stilwell, 36, a slight, bespectacled, but athletic captain from New York's Westchester County, whose aptitude for language made him the first U.S. Army officer sent to Peking for training in Chinese. He was to spend 13 of the next 24 years there...
Helen Gilbert '36, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman '33, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and Mary Caperton Bingham '28, newspaperwoman and civic leader, also attended the meeting. The three residences were named after these women...
...Tuchman, a member of the History Visiting Committee, the Harvard Board of Overseers, and the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, has received honorary degrees from Bates College, the University of Massachusetts, Columbia andYale. She has three daughters, two of them Radcliffe alumnae...