Barbara Tuchman 1912-1989
On a cold winter morning on January 30th in 1912 a baby girl was born to the proud parents of Maurice and Alma Wertheim. Her name was Barbara. She would someday come to be known as Barbara Tuchman, narrative historian and writer.
Barbara was born into a comfortable home in New York, New York. She had a middle class up bringing and both her mother and father came from distinguished families. They also were probably well off because of her fathers great success in business. Barbara's father Maurice was at some point President of the American Jewish Committee as well as a Philanthropist, a baker and a publisher. He published many magazines one of which was The Nation. Which he purchased as it was going bankrupt in 1935. Barbara's grandfather Henry Morgenthau Sr., Maurice's father, worked and served as an ambassador to Turkey, and her uncle Henry Morgenthau Jr., Maurice's brother, was Secretary of the Treasury for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Barbara......
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