Barbara W. Tuchman
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August, a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of Wor
Tuchman in 1971
Tuchman with William L. Shirer (left) and John Eisenhower (right) in 1971
A Distant Mirror
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century is a narrative history book by the American historian Barbara Tuchman, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1978. It won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award
Barbara W. Tuchman
…female president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1979. She won a U.S. National Book Award in History for the first paperback edition of A Distant Mirror in 1980. Also in 1980 Tuchman gave the National Endowment for the Humanities' (NEH) Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for…
First edition