Barbara Tuchman's 'The March Of Folly', Even After 34 Years, Is All Too Relevant by Artsjournal1

"'Wooden-headedness' in statecraft, which she defined as 'assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs,' has clearly become a prevailing factor in our politics. As Tuchman wrote, wooden-headedness was best captured in a remark about Philip II of Spain: 'No experience of the failure of his policy […]

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