Talk:Barbara W. Tuchman

message: What is the association between Tuchman & Ohio State? --DEddy 18:42, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ohio State 

message: The error is the last entry in the list of her books.  The last book listed is "Fin De Siecle, a novel", for which I can find no evidence.  My next step would be to learn how to check for the book's existence at the Library of Congress, which I'm not going to take time to learn now.  If someone wants to leave a message for me on my own talk page, feel free -- but I'm not likely to check back for it for weeks or months.
If the Library of Congress verifies the existence of all 11 of her actual books, but not the book which we erroneously list -- and which lots of websites quote, making WP's error much more serious -- then one could safely remove this book from the WP article.  Or WP experts could judge whether the originator of this error is a reliable contributor.
I do not like WP making quoted errors like this one, but I'm not going to remove the book myself without absolute proof as above. --For7thGen 00:17/00:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no such qualms.  Being bold cuts both ways.   See also Wikipedia:Reference desk/Miscellaneous#Error in Barbara Tuchman article.  It's gone until such time as absolute proof if its existence can be provided. --JackofOz 04:14, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Fin De Siecle, a novel'' 

message: The following articles may contain material that can be used to improve the article:
* http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/tuchman.html
* http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tuchman.htm
* http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Tuchman__Barbara.html
* http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/mcd/tuchman.htm
* http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Barbara%20Tuchman
--LambiamTalk 06:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential material for improvements to the article 

message: I'm having a devil of a time tracking down some Clausewitz quotes. My source is The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. Tuchman says (p 39) that among Clausewitz' objectives of war is that of "gaining great victories and possession of the enemy's capital." Guns gives the cite for this (from the 3-volume Graham translation) as Clausewitz III, 209-10. This apparently doesn't correspond to the online versions of Graham (for example http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_War or http://www.clausewitz.com/CWZHOME/VomKriege2/ONWARTOC2.HTML ).
Can anybody give me a cite for any online English translation of this quote?
Is there any rule of thumb for converting page numbers of one translation of Clausewitz to another?
Thanks. --201.53.4.206 10:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clausewitz page numbers 

message: Tuchman states in practicing history that Bible and Sword was closed and never published, can someone confirm this ? I only have a section of Practicing history.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Challenger78 (talk • contribs) 14:43, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bible and Sword 

message: In two places in the this article it says that The Guns Of August was re-published and re-named "August 1914".  While I am far from an expert on Ms. Tuchman and her works, I believe that August 1914 is the title of an Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn novel on the same general topic published in the West in the early 1970's and supplemented by him years later while he lived in Vermont.  I would find it amazing that Tuchman would a) change the name of her book and b) use the same name as another noted author.  Unless the author of this article has some real authority for the August 1914 items, I believe they should be removed.
John Manaras
--108.20.29.41 (talk) 21:18, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the first I've heard of the book having an alternative title but, yes, August 1914 seems to be another title used. See this review referencing the two names. Here's a cover of the book published using the alternative title. It appears "August 1914" was the title used for the UK edition of Tuchman's book, published 1963.  August 1914, the novel, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was published in 1971. --Flyte35 (talk) 02:57/5:53, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guns Of August republished as August 1914? 

message: That short sentence from the "Saturday Review" is ridiculous and nothing more than a weak pun. I think there are many points of criticism, somebody should work on this... (is it going to be me?) --91.10.63.27 (talk) 16:44, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: On reading the article, I fully agree that it is ridiculous and I have pulled the one-item section for now. The Saturday Review, as noted in my edit summary, was on its last legs in 1985 and shortly thereafter became defunct. If we are going to have such a section in an honored author's article, something more meaningful and encyclopedic is called for. Clearly a case of WP:UNDUE as it stood. --Jusdafax  06:10, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section "Criticism" 

message: As written today, the opening sentence refers to Tuchman as a "Liberal American historian." I see no basis for calling her liberal, using either a lower case or upper case L She was Jewish, but that does not automatically make her liberal, which is a term difficult or impossible to define. I assume no one will genuinely object, so I will remove it until someone can justify its use. --Closedthursday (talk) 15:39, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm quite sure Barbara Tuchman would not have identified as a progressive by today's standards! Vainamoinen --124.33.208.179 (talk) 01:08, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Liberal" 

message: I am bewildered by the following:
"When John Loomis Sherman left as head of a Communist spy ring in Tokyo (second to that of Richard Sorge), Tuchman took over Sherman's cover (less espionage activities) as head of Tokyo offices...."
What does "second" mean? To what does "that" refer? Did Tuchman take over Sherman's name, age, gender, appearance, etc.? (I used to be "Unfree") 208.54.85.239 (talk) 07:04, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Concur with previous comment. Statement suggests that Tuchman was a Soviet spy. If so, the language should be explicit and the citation should be clear. Footnote #4 looks like some sort to a FIA doc that goes on and on. When accusing a person of treason, the supporting evidence should be made as accessible as possible. If it is not unequivocal, the quality of the evidence (or lack thereof) should be expressed along with the accusation. Finding such an ambiguous and poorly supported statement in Wiki was disappointing. --Cholmondeleycle (talk) 19:29, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've removed this bizarre passage. Don't be shy about getting rid of garbage that you spot on Wikipedia. Carrite (talk) 19:39, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Communist spy 

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message: I will take out a brief phrase in the article about taking her husband's surname, which is (a) obvious, and (b), standard for women in the 1940's.Asburyparker (talk) 16:34, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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