| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780802138521 | | Publisher: Grove Press | | Publish Date: 10/1/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 30800384 | | Item#: RX2MQW | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 6L x 1.25T | | Pages: 624 |
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| | | Tuchman uses the epic life of "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, commander of United States forces and allied chief of staff to Chiang Kai-shek, to explore the history of China from the revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack from Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents.
| Author Bio| Barbara Tuchman | | Barbara Wertheim Tuchman came from a prominent family of bankers and politically-involved figures. Her grandfather, Henry Morgenthau, Sr. was the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and to Mexico under President Wilson, and her uncle Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of the treasury. Her father Maurice was an international banker, art collector, and philanthropist, who had purchased the "Nation" during the Depression to save it from bankruptcy. Tuchman reported for the "Nation" in the 1930s, which brought her to Spain and then to London; these experiences as a journalist led to her first book entitled "The Last British Policy: Britain & Spain since 1700" (1938). She married Dr. Lester Reginald Tuchman in 1940, with whom she had three daughters, Lucy, Jessica, and Alma. Tuchman found it difficult to be accepted as a professional writer in a family of businessmen and diplomats, even more so because a woman. She was not trained as a historian, but sees this as a benefit: her writing was prevented from becoming too obscure. Tuchman wrote several popular narrative histories, for which, two, "The Guns of August" and "Stillwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-45" earned her the Pulitzer prize in 1963 and 1972, respectively. Tuchman died of a stroke at age 77. |
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Pulitzer Prize (1972) |  | won, Nonfiction | | |
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