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"I was disappointed to find that [Mrs. Tuchman's] new book does not come up to the high level of 'The Guns of August'....There are a surprising number of stylistic critities and cliches for a writer of her power....In treating personality the author's lapses are most disappointing, since she herself so often provides the standard of excellence....The most serious defect...is structural....If Mrs. Tuchman could have made explicit the subjective basis for her choices,...if she could have given them shape and definition, she might thereby have raised them to the level of an organizing principle. As a result, her book could have taken on thematic coherence. But since she reamins unaware of or embarrassed by her modus operandi, we have instead not a 'portrait of the period,' but random brush strokes leaving a canvas unoccupied by any ruling vision."
New York Times Book Review (01/09/1966)
"Mrs. Tuchman paints the scene for us with a masterly brush, a scene glittering and brilliant, sumptuous and outrageous...misery and violence and horror--an inferno out of which erupted anarchism and revolution..."
Book Week - Henry Steele Commager (01/09/1966)
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