Making History

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Making History

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Author :   Richard Cohen
Publisher :   Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published :   16/03/2023
ISBN :   9781474615792
Format :   Paperback
Pages :   784
Size (mm) :   196x128x50
Weight (g) :   600

An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. Richard Cohen reveals... Read more
 
An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses (such as the writers of the Bible, major novelists, dramatists, journalists and political propagandists) influence what become the accepted records of human experience. Is there, he asks, even such a thing as 'objective' history?