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In The March of Folly, two time Pulitzer Prize-Winning historian Barbara Tuchman discusses the persistent existence of folly in authorities through the ages. Determining folly whilst the pursuit by governments of policies unlike their particular interests, regardless of the accessibility to feasible options, Tuchman particulars four important turning points ever that demonstrate the heights of folly in authorities: the Trojan War, the separation of the Holy View triggered by the Renaissance popes, the increasing loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and america' consistent folly in Vietnam. The March of Folly provides the folks, places, and events of history wonderfully living for modern audience.