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Tuchman reflects on world events and the historians craft in these perceptive, essential essays. January 30, 1912 february 6, 1989 was an american historian and author. American author and historian whose world war ithemed work, the guns of august, won the pulitzer prize. Her other works include bible and sword, the proud tower, stilwell and the american experience in china for which tuchman was awarded a second pulitzer prize, notes from china, a. Here are proud cardinals, beggars, bailiffs, feminists, jews, university scholars, grocers, bankers, clerks, sorcerers, mercenaries, saints and mystics, lawyers and taxcollectors, and dominating all, the knight in his valor and furious follies, a terrible worm in an iron cocoon.
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