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Barbara Tuchman: What his imagination...

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What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Source: Book review in New York Times, 1964.
-- Barbara Tuchman, (Jan 30 1912-1989), US historian; She is known for her Pulitzer prize-winning historical books, e.g., The Guns of August.


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