Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays

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Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athe — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
Nineteenth-century liberalism had assumed that man was a rational being who operated naturally according to his own best — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
The writer of history, I believe, has a number of duties vis-à-vis the reader, if he wants to keep him reading. The firs — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out fo — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the mater — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays