Barbara Tuchman was one of my two favorite historians, (the other is still alive). She published The First Salute in 1988, then died of a stroke early the next year, so this book was to have been her last salute. I…
Tag: American Revolution
It’s Not That Revolution May Be Coming, But That It Has to Come
And the People have to cause it. Here’s how we can make it happen. At the time it happened, Admiral Yamamoto’s brilliant sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was hailed as a masterstroke of military planning and execution. But within hours of the attack, after…