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Making history : the storytellers who shaped the past / Richard Cohen.

by Cohen, Richard, 1947- author.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Historiography.

9781982195786 (hardcover) :

1982195789 (hardcover) :

xxii, 753 pages ; : illustrations ; 24 cm

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

"There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told? A single author can deeply shape our understanding through the prism of their own beliefs. In Making History, Richard Cohen reveals how historians, novelists, dramatists, journalists, political propagandists, and even writers of the Bible have influence and continue to influence the accepted records of human experience. Is there, he asks, even such a thing as "objective" history? And what is it to call someone a historian in the first place? A lively tour guide, Cohen leads a delightful inquiry into the published works and private utterances of our greatest historical thinkers to discover the agendas that informed their vies of the world, and which in so many ways have informed ours. From the origins of history writing--when such an activity itself seemed revolutionary--to practitioners of "Bad History" (those fiends who twist reality to glorify themselves and conceal their own or their county's behavior), Cohen's inquiry takes us all the way up through the advent of television and the digital age." -- Provided by publisher.

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