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Practicing History : Selected Essays
by Tuchman, Barbara W
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394520866
- ISBN 13
- 9780394520865
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1981. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. (3d ptg.) Large, heavy book, black cloth with gilt initials at top front right bright, gilt lettering near very fine on spine, 306 lightly browned heavy pages. Essays on: Israel, Vietnam, World War I, Mao, Kissinger, Watergate and the presidency, and more. DJ price-clipped, white background lightly browned, color-illustration of abacus on front, b/w photo of Tuchman on back. DJ lightly soiled at top front left and spine bottom, tiny crease at bottom back tip. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.
Synopsis
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) achieved prominence as a historian with The Zimmermann Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August —a huge bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her other works include Bible and Sword, The Proud Tower, Stilwell and the American Experience in China (for which Tuchman was awarded a second Pulitzer Prize), Notes from China, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, and The First Salute .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26756
- Title
- Practicing History : Selected Essays
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394520866
- ISBN 13
- 9780394520865
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- HISTORY GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
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New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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