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- DIED. Barbara Tuchman, 77, two-time Pulitzer-prizewinning
- historian and author of the current best-selling account of the
- American Revolution, The First Salute; after a stroke; in
- Greenwich, Conn. Although known for her vivid style and
- prodigious scholarship, Tuchman never earned a graduate degree;
- she wrote most of her eleven books while rearing three
- daughters. Her first big seller, The Guns of August, in 1962,
- was followed by Stilwell and the American Experience in China,
- 1911-45 and The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam.
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