The March of Folly by Barbara Tuchman

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


A collection of pieces exploring terrible policy, and specifically policy counter to the actors's interests. Appealing in concept, but lacking that put together incisiveness of Tuchman at her best. She can talk about the ruinous behavior of the Renaissance Popes and Britain's blinkered inability to correctly handle the American colonies with her usual detail and erudition, but this book lacks cohesion, or a real message other than institutional idiocy: weird, eh?



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