The March of Folly

Resumen del libro

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. The March of Folly, a work of profound and poignant relevance today, is breathtaking in its scope, originality and vision, and represents the writing of Barbara Tuchman at it's finest.

Biografía del autor

Barbara W. Tuchman (Nueva York, 1912-1989), periodista, escritora e historiadora, se licenció en el Radcliffe College. Empezó a destacar como historiadora con El telegrama Zimmermann (1959) y alcanzó la fama internacional con Los cañones de agosto (1962), que obtuvo un enorme éxito de ventas y ganó el Premio Pulitzer. Sus dos obras siguientes, La torre del orgullo (1966) y Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), alcanzaron una repercusión excepcional. Con este último además, volvió a ganar el Pulitzer. Entre sus trabajos ás reconocidos está también Un espejo lejano (1978).