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...PROUD TOWER, by Barbara W. Tuchman. As a sequel to her admirable The Guns of August, Historian Tuchman has again used impressive scholarship and a beguiling wit to examine the quality of the uneasy society that produced World...
...Barbara Tuchman, an alumna, has contributed $150,000 in royalties from her new book, The Proud Tower, for the renovation, Laurence S. Rockefeller has contributed $150,000 which must be matched, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has contributed another $150,000 to be matched...
Such men could hardly be expected to hear the hum of machinery that was changing their world, the increasingly impudent demands of the newly prosperous middle classes, even the crash of anarchist bombs. Says Tuchman: "So enchanting was the vision of a stateless society, without government, without law, without ownership of property, in which, corrupt institutions having been swept away, man would be free to be good as God intended him, that six heads of state were assassinated for its sake in the 20 years before 1914. Not one could qualify as a tyrant. Their deaths were the gestures...
Between Two Epochs. Mrs. Tuchman finds equal significance in the Dreyfus Affair: "While it lasted, France exhibited, as in the Revolution, political man at his most combative. Men plunged up to the hilt of their capacities and beliefs. They held nothing back. On the eve of the new century the Affair revealed what energies and ferocities were at hand to greet it." And as Jaurès' death dramatized, it was the era in which the Socialist notion that all the workers of the world could unite on anything turned out to be fantasy...
...Great War of 1914-18, concludes Historian Tuchman, "lies like a band of scorched earth dividing that time from ours. In wiping out so many lives which would have been operative on the years that followed, in destroying beliefs, changing ideas, and leaving incurable wounds of disillusion, it created a physical as well as psychological gulf between two epochs...