Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

But to settle the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli’s power—beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world today.

Barbara W. Tuchman

But to settle the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli’s power—beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world today.

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About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.