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008			810421s1981 nyu 000 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aD13 _b.T83 1981
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100	1		_aTuchman, Barbara W. _q(Barbara Wertheim), _d1912-1989. _950124
245	1	0	_aPracticing history : _bselected essays /
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c1981.
300			_avi, 306 pages ; _c25 cm
505	0		_aIn search of history -- When does history happen? -- History by the ounce -- The historian as artist -- The historian's opportunity -- Problems in writing the biography of General Stilwell -- The houses of research -- Biography as a prism of history -- Japan: a clinical note -- Campaign train -- What Madrid reads -- "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead" -- The final solution -- Israel: land of unlimited impossibilities -- Woodrow Wilson on Freud's couch -- How we entered World War I -- Israel's swift sword -- If Mao had come to Washington -- The assimilationist dilemma: Ambassador Morgenthau's story -- Kissinger: self-portrait -- Mankind's better moments -- Is history a guide to the future? -- Vietnam -- When, why, and how to get out -- Coalition in Vietnam- not worth one more life -- The citizen versus the military -- Historical clues to present discontents -- Generalship -- Why policy-makers do not listen -- Watergate and the presidency -- Should we abolish the presidency? -- A fear of the remedy -- A letter to the House of Representatives -- Defusing the presidency -- On our birthday- America as idea.
520			_aFrom thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history."
648		0	_a1900-1999 _9133318
650		0	_aHistoriography. _950125
650		0	_aHistory, Modern _y20th century. _950126
650	1	2	_aHistoriography. _950127
650	1	2	_aHistory, 20th Century. _950128
655		2	_aEssays. _921040
655		4	_aAufsatzsammlung. _950129
655		4	_aEssays. _921040
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aTuchman, Barbara Wertheim. _tPracticing history. _b1st ed. _dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981 _w(OCoLC)644323998
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