The March of Folly - Barbara Tuchman

Category: Adults, History
Language: English
Keywords: History

Written by Barbara Tuchman
Read by Wanda McCaddon
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

In The March of Folly, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Barbara Tuchman tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ persistent folly in Vietnam.