Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

Is more unfair, as an English historian has well said, than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Is more unfair, as an English historian has well said, than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.

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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.