The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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History has never been so ruthlessly honest as in Barbara W. Tuchman's The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, a magisterial examination of one of humanity's most persistent and catastrophic afflictions — the pursuit of policies that are demonstrably self-destructive, even as wiser alternatives remain clearly visible. Spanning millennia of recorded civilisation, Tuchman chronicles four landmark case studies of governmental folly: the Trojan rulers who wheeled the wooden horse inside their walls, the Renaissance popes who provoked the Protestant secession, the British Parliament that drove the American colonies to rebellion, and the successive American administrations that deepened the quagmire of Vietnam against every counsel of reason. Tuchman, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, argues with forensic clarity and narrative brilliance that folly is not the product of stupidity, but of the wilful blindness of those in power — a condition she defines with rigorous precision. Her prose is both accessible and commanding, marshalling vast historical evidence into a unified, damning thesis that resonates far beyond the pages of any single era. The March of Folly stands as a landmark of popular historiography, leaving the reader to wonder with quiet dread: has anything, in truth, ever really changed?
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: Paperback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
History has never been so ruthlessly honest as in Barbara W. Tuchman's The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, a magisterial examination of one of humanity's most persistent and catastrophic afflictions — the pursuit of policies that are demonstrably self-destructive, even as wiser alternatives remain clearly visible. Spanning millennia of recorded civilisation, Tuchman chronicles four landmark case studies of governmental folly: the Trojan rulers who wheeled the wooden horse inside their walls, the Renaissance popes who provoked the Protestant secession, the British Parliament that drove the American colonies to rebellion, and the successive American administrations that deepened the quagmire of Vietnam against every counsel of reason. Tuchman, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, argues with forensic clarity and narrative brilliance that folly is not the product of stupidity, but of the wilful blindness of those in power — a condition she defines with rigorous precision. Her prose is both accessible and commanding, marshalling vast historical evidence into a unified, damning thesis that resonates far beyond the pages of any single era. The March of Folly stands as a landmark of popular historiography, leaving the reader to wonder with quiet dread: has anything, in truth, ever really changed?