A review by mattrohn
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman

5.0

This book covers a very wide range of topics throughout this time period in Europe and the US but manages to never feel disjointed or scattershot. Every topic section does an impressive job of showing how it interacted with others (ie cultural, political, military, labor, gender, etc) in a way that creates a cohesive gestalt sense of a time as more than the sum of its parts, and does this much better than the background portions of G.J. Meyer's A World Undone