Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781982195793ISBN-10:1982195797UPC:9781982195793Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historiography, Historical, WorldSize:8.38 x 5.50 x 1.96 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SCQFCKWPP8
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
A "supremely entertaining" (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? In this "witty, wise, and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9781982195793ISBN-10:1982195797UPC:9781982195793Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Historiography, Historical, WorldSize:8.38 x 5.50 x 1.96 inchesWeight:1.3118Product ID:SCQFCKWPP8
Richard Cohen is the author of By the Sword, Chasing the Sun, and How to Write Like Tolstoy. The former publishing director of two leading London publishing houses, he has edited books that have won the Pulitzer, Booker, and Whitbread/Costa prizes, while twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. He has written for most UK quality newspapers as well as for The New York Times Book Review and The Wall...
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