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Barbara W. Tuchman

1912 - 1989

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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell. Tuchman focused on writing popular history. Tuchman was a member of the Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East, a pro-Israel group. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara W. Tuchman is the 135th most popular historian (up from 150th in 2019), the 2,570th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,559th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 135 out of 561. Before her are Paisius of Hilendar, Richard Sennett, Golo Mann, John Kinnamos, Philostorgius, and Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme. After her are Timothy D. Snyder, Ibn Hibban, Heinrich von Treitschke, William H. McNeill, Vladimir Minorsky, and Hieronymus Wolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 105. Before her are Jacques Ellul, Jiří Trnka, Yuen Siu-tien, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Gordon Gollob, and Michel Debré. After her are Arne Næss, Samuel Fuller, Isidro Lángara, Igor Markevitch, Yaroslav Stetsko, and Axel Springer. Among people deceased in 1989, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 75. Before her are Leonardo Sciascia, Lucille Ball, Minoru Genda, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Hamani Diori, and Bernard Blier. After her are Hassan Fathy, Carlos Arias Navarro, Hans Hartung, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Nicolás Guillén, and Margarete Buber-Neumann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 2,570 out of 20,380. Before her are William Labov (1927), Glenn Frey (1948), Albert King (1923), Nora Ephron (1941), Candy Darling (1944), and James McKeen Cattell (1860). After her are John Savage (1949), Lee Majors (1939), Robert Smithson (1938), R. L. Stine (1943), Bettie Page (1923), and Jennifer Grey (1960).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Barbara W. Tuchman ranks 7. Before her are Thomas Kuhn (1922), Jared Diamond (1937), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Donna Haraway (1944), Hayden White (1928), and Richard Sennett (1943). After her are Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Christopher Browning (1944), Linda Nochlin (1931), Howard Zinn (1922), Deborah Lipstadt (1947), and Rudolph Rummel (1932).

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