Ebook {Epub PDF} The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman

The March of Folly - From Troy to Vietnam Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the. Buy The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 10 editions - starting at $ Shop now.5/5(1).  · In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for Brand: Random House Publishing Group.

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Barbara Tuchman was a journalist before becoming a history author, and despite The March of Folly being a book about certain historical incidents, it is more a work of journalism than history. It is an investigation into the process by which governments embark on self-destructive courses ('folly'), despite recognition of the problem, and alternative courses being available. ― Barbara W. Tuchman, quote from The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam “The follies that produced the loss of American virtue following Vietnam begin with continuous overreacting, in the invention of endangered national security, the invention of vital interest, the invention of a commitment which rapidly assumed a life of its own.”. After citing well-known individual examples of folly in government, Tuchman employs the Trojans taking the wooden horse within their walls as the model for her thesis, fleshed out in more lengthy case studies of the Renaissance Popes’ behaviors provoking the Protestant secession, the British incompetence in the loss of America in the 18th century, and the United States betraying her values in Vietnam.