This person argued for the role of historians as storytellers and compared the transition from research to writing as "a moment of Olympus" in the essay collection, Practicing History.  A late work claimed "mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any human activity", and compared the fall of Troy and the Protestant Reformation to the US's involvement in Vietnam, 1984's The March (+) of Folly.  This one-time collaborator with Henry Kissinger on America's Security in the 1980s wrote The Lost British Policy after the Spanish Civil War, while a more famous work frames its narrative around the life of Enguerrand de Coucy (*) and is subtitled The Calamitous 14th Century.  She won a Pulitzer Prize and the admiration of John F. Kennedy for a book which expanded on her earlier The Proud Tower, a work which provided an in-depth analysis of the first month of World War I.  The namesake of the law, "the fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold", FTP, name this author of A Distant Mirror and The Guns of August.
This person argued for the role of historians as storytellers and compared the transition from research to writing as "a moment of Olympus" in the essay collection, Practicing History.  A late work claimed "mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any human activity", and compared the fall of Troy and the Protestant Reformation to the US's involvement in Vietnam, 1984's The March (+) of Folly.  This one-time collaborator with Henry Kissinger on America's Security in the 1980s wrote The Lost British Policy after the Spanish Civil War, while a more famous work frames its narrative around the life of Enguerrand de Coucy (*) and is subtitled The Calamitous 14th Century.  She won a Pulitzer Prize and the admiration of John F. Kennedy for a book which expanded on her earlier The Proud Tower, a work which provided an in-depth analysis of the first month of World War I.  The namesake of the law, "the fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold", FTP, name this author of A Distant Mirror and The Guns of August.
This person argued for the role of historians as storytellers and compared the transition from research to writing as "a moment of Olympus" in the essay collection, Practicing History.  
Barbara Wertheim {Tuchman} [3]