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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

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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.