Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! lamented Samuel Coleridge. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us. The image is beautiful but

Barbara W. Tuchman

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! lamented Samuel Coleridge. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us. The image is beautiful but

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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.