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Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government.
Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
Perhaps the most dramatic revelation of the conflict of conscience which still conditions our daily lives took place more than a hundred years ago in confrontations of the the renowned Senator Stephen A. Douglas, and a little-known lawyer named Abraham Lincoln. For both "the little Giant," seeking re-election, and his opponent dubbed "the Tall Sucker," the debates were the turning points of their careers, destined to mark the decline of one and the rise of the other. Few personal clashes in recorded history have proved as fateful to a nation as to the individual antagonists. Their debates epitomized the struggle…
