The History Makers
2,500 Years of Who We Are
The History Makers is 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, There are many stories we can spin about years gone by, but which accounts come to be told, and by whom? A single author can deeply shape our understanding through the prism of his or her own beliefs, 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) in…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4746-1578-5
- EAN: 9781474615785
- Produktnummer: 32294912
- Verlag: Orion
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 736 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.3 cm
Über den Autor
Richard Cohen is the author of Chasing the Sun, How to Write Like Tolstoy and By the Sword. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and for two years was programme director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Five times UK national sabre champion, he was selected for the British Olympic fencing team. He lives in New York.
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