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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled. Tuchman, Barbara

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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version.

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