![]() ![]() Seven of the eight pieces on craft turn out, moreover, to be arguments for Tuchman's kind of history-writing (the eighth is a graceful bow to research libraries). ![]() In sum, a Tuchman retrospective, 1936-1980. The first section consists of discussions of craft the second chiefly of occasional pieces and book reviews the third of timely views-responses, mainly, to Vietnam and Watergate. These selected essays are not, then, contributions to the advancement of knowledge-with two possible exceptions. The title is apt: Tuchman does indeed practice history as a lawyer practices law, or a doctor medicine that is, she applies it-to the writing of involving narratives, to the drawing of contemporary judgments. ![]()
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