The March Of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

From the distinguished American historian whose work has been acclaimed around the world, a major new book that penetrates one of the most bizarre and fascinating paradoxes in history: the persistent pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

Across the march of thirty centuries:

Barbara Tuchman brings to life the dramatic events which constitute folly's hallmark in government, including:

• The fall of Troy: A symbolic prototype of freely chosen disaster.
• The Protestant secession: Provoked by six decades of spectacularly corrupt papacy.
• The British forfeiture of the American colonies.
• America's catastrophic thirty-year involvement with Vietnam.

The March of Folly, a work of profound and poignant relevance today, is breathtaking in its scope, originality, and vision, and represents the writing of Barbara Tuchman at its finest.