The March of Folly

副标题: From Troy to Vietnam

ISBN: 9780349106748

出版社: Abacus

出版年: 1990-02-15

页数: 576

定价: USD 26.85

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own intersts. Across the march of thirty centuries, Tuchman brings to life the dramatic events which constitute folly's hallmark in government; the fall of Troy, symbolic prototype of freely chosen disaster; the Protestant secession, provoked by six decades of spectacularly corrupt papcy; the British forfeiture of the American colonies; and America's catastrophic thirty year involvement with vietnam.

作者简介

巴巴拉·W·塔奇曼（Barbara W. Tuchman，1912—1989），美国著名历史学家、作家，1963年和1972年凭《八月炮火》与《史迪威与美国在中国的经验，1911—1945》两度获得普利策奖。她偏爱以文学的方式书写历史，她的文字充满戏剧性和画面感，在充分发掘史料的前提下伴随着意味深长的议论和反思。其作品深受大众读者和费正清等历史学家的推崇。

奥利弗·B·波拉克曾这样写道：“作为历史学家，塔奇曼不是在为其他历史学家们而写作；在她的著作里，字里行间，千百万大众读者通过她的文字感受到了历史的精彩之处。”

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