{"product_id":"9780345405012","title":"The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Zimmerman Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower, \u003c\/i\u003eBarbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“[Barbara W. Tuchman’s] Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August \u003c\/i\u003ewas an expert evocation of the first spasm of the 1914–1918 war. She brings the same narrative gifts and panoramic camera eye to her portrait of the antebellum world.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish . . . It would be impossible to read \u003ci\u003eThe Proud Tower \u003c\/i\u003ewithout pleasure and admiration.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “An exquisitely written and thoroughly engrossing work . . . The author’s knowledge and skill are so impressive that they whet the appetite for more.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Tuchman] tells her story with cool wit and warm understanding.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053211992304,"sku":"9780345405012","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345405012_p0.jpg?v=1769890701","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345405012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}