Born in New York City, New York
Ancestors 
Daughter of Maurice Wertheim
and Alma Josephine (Morgenthau) Wertheim
Sister of
Josephine Alma (Wertheim) Pomerance
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 77
in Greenwich, Connecticut
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| Created 23 Jul 2014
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Biography
Barbara (Wertheim) Tuchman is Notable.
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (later August 1914), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.
Tuchman was the daughter of the banker Maurice Wertheim. She was a first cousin of New York district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, a niece of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.
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