Practicing History – 4/5 Stars This is a collection of essays, mostly about history writing, by the American historian Barbara Tuchman. This is my third Tuchman book, and the least “history” one. Her other two books, The First Salute and March to Folly, were both history driven, but also argument driven. This book’s essays cover a wide ranging set of essays, some specifically focused on historical questions like Mao and figures connected to WWI, while the bulk (or at least it feels this way) were mostly about the […]
History began to exert it fascination upon me when I was about six, through the medium of the Twins series by Lucy Fitch Perkins.
Praticing History by Barbara Tuchman
A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul
Deadlock by Sara Paretsky
The Sweet Science by AJ Liebling
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser