![]() ![]() They had three daughters, including Jessica Mathews, who became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace." (from Wikipedia). 5, 1988 With her usual grace and sweep, the author of A Distant Mirror, The Proud Tower, and The Guns of August describes the American Revolution from the European point of view. Tuchman, an internist, medical researcher and professor of clinical medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan. A first book resulted from her Spanish experience, The Lost British Policy: Britain and Spain Since 1700, published in 1938. She also contributed to The Nation as a correspondent until her father's sale of the publication in 1937, traveling to Valencia and Madrid to cover the Spanish Civil War. "Following graduation, Wertheim worked as a volunteer research assistant at the Institute of Pacific Relations in New York, spending a year in Tokyo in 1934 35, including a month in China, before returning to the United States via the Trans-Siberian Railway to Moscow and on to Paris. The coverage of events in America is almost tangential to the story Tuchman has to tell. The price clipped dust jacket is crisp and clean. Barbara Tuchman’s First Salute: A View of The American Revolution is a look at the American War of Independence from an external perspective. ![]() The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. ![]()
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