{"product_id":"barbara-w-tuchman-the-guns-of-august-the-proud-tower-loa-222-isbn-9781598531459","title":"Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August, The Proud Tower (LOA #222)","description":"Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among  historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex  interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that  fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute  portraitist, she brilliantly laid bare the all-too-human failures of  leaders subject to the pull of historical currents and prone, often  tragically, to the ingrained biases of culture and temperament. Her  Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e (1962)  offers a majestic orchestration of the diplomatic and military history  of the crucial first weeks of World War I. Tuchman's observations about  the irrational escalation of conflict made a deep impression on  President John F. Kennedy and influenced his actions during the Cuban  Missile Crisis; fifty years later, \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e remains an  exemplary study of events propelled headlong by their own internal  logic and momentum. Some of Tuchman's finest writing is contained in  her following book, \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World\u003c\/i\u003e before the War, 1890-1914 (1966), a fascinating kaleidoscope of eight  precisely drawn essays on subjects ranging from international socialism  and anarchism to the Dreyfus Affair in France and the birth of American  imperialism that collectively set the stage for the cataclysm of 1914.  Presented in one volume for the first time and released to mark  Tuchman's centennial year and the fiftieth anniversary of the  publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August\u003c\/i\u003e, here is a vivid, indelible  panorama of an epoch in transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.MARGARET MacMILLAN, editor, is the author of \u003ci\u003eParis 1919\u003c\/i\u003e (winner  of the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, the  Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, the Governor-General's award for  nonfiction, and a New York Times best book of the year), \u003ci\u003eNixon and  Mao\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWomen of the Raj\u003c\/i\u003e. A past provost of Trinity College  at the University of Toronto, MacMillan is the warden of St. Antony's  College at Oxford University.","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305368015077,"sku":"NP9781598531459","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781598531459.jpg?v=1767722156","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/barbara-w-tuchman-the-guns-of-august-the-proud-tower-loa-222-isbn-9781598531459","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}