The Craft of History: Tuchman on History
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In this incisive, concise work, popular American history writer Barbara W. Tuchman explores the historian's craft and many historical events. It contains Tuchman's thoughtful reflections on the role of the historian, astonishing insights into America's past and present, and her penetrating observations of international events - Tuchman always looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. The articles in this book span more than forty years, and Tuchman touches on a series of eclectic topics: Israel, China, Roosevelt's campaign train, the Freudian interpretation of Woodrow Wilson... These talented articles condense and present the "historical skills" that he has spent his entire life pondering. Should historians be artists? The conscious use of artistic techniques should certainly be one of his tools. Macaulay described himself as half poet, half philosopher. I don't expect to reach his level in either aspect. I consider myself a storyteller, a narrator, but what I tell is true, not fiction. --Barbara W. Tuchman
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