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Richard Cohen

The History Makers

2,500 Years of Shaping the Past

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An epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers-from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to 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. In The History Makers, Cohen reveals how professional historians, major novelists, dramatists, journalists, political propagandists, and even the writers of the Bible have and continue to influence the accepted records of… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-58836-935-2
  • EAN: 9781588369352
  • Produktnummer: 32616447
  • Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 736 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Abbildungen: 87 B/W PHOTOS THROUGHOUT; 16-PP COLOR PHOTO INSERT

Über den Autor


Richard Cohen is the author of Chasing the Sun and How to Write Like Tolstoy. The former publishing director of two leading London publishing houses, Cohen has edited books that have won the Pulitzer, Booker, and Whitbread/Costa prizes, while twenty-one have been #1 bestsellers. Five times the U.K.'s national saber champion, Cohen was selected for the British Olympic fencing team in 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1984 and has been four times world veteran saber champion. He has written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times Book Review.

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