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Barbara Tuchman was an American historian renowned for her in-depth research and vivid narrative style. Her works covered historical events from the Roman Empire to the 20th century, with 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' and 'The Guns of August' being particularly notable.

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Famous Barbara Tuchman Quotes

“To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.”

Book Quality Communication

Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

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“I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.”

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Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays

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“Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.”

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Book:The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

Source: The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

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Book:The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

Source: The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979

“Books are humanity in print.”

Book Humanity Print

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions , teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

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Author:Barbara Tuchman

“To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.”

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Author:Barbara Tuchman

“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.”

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Book:Practicing History: Selected Essays