I recently reread this book, for the fourth time, I believe, and an edition signed by Barbara Tuchman given me by Scott some near five weeks ago now. It is one of my favorite books, more so now than even when I first read it, back in 1985 or so. Her description of the folly, pride, and dismal conclusion of the ‘calamitous fourteenth century’ is more apt than ever, now that our own new century is leading us into the same grim playground of history.
I should take the time to point out the food crisis, the energy crisis, the crisis at large, the score of military crises, the crisis of confidence afflicting nearly every society on the globe? yes, the world has always had crisis, but the ones we face are particularly dangerous in that they threaten to undo everything accomplished since 1800 . . . perhaps more.
We will be lucky to forge our way through it in America in one piece. So much luck can’t be said of the rest of the world.
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