Practicing history : selected essays / by Barbara W. Tuchman

The craft: In search of history; when does history happen?; History by the ounce; The historian as artist; The historian's opportunity; problems in writing the biography of general stilwell; the houses of research; biogrphy as a prism of history--- The yield: Japan a clinical note; campaign train; what Madrid reads; perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead; the final solution; Israel: land of unlimited impossibilities; woodrow Wilson on Freud's couch; How we entered world war I; Israel's swift sword; If Mao had come to Washington; The assimilationist dilemma: ambasador morgenthau's story; Kissinger: self-portrait; Mankind's Better momets--- Learning from history: It history a guide to the future?; Vietnam; When, why, and how to get out; Coalition in Vietnam-not worth one more life; The citizen versus the military; Historical clues to present discontents; generalship; why policy-makeers do not listen; watergate and the presidency; a fear of the remedy; a letter to the house of representatives; defusing the presidency; on our birthday-America as idea.