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

By: Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022Description: 753 pages, illustrations : 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781474615778 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 907.2022
Summary: "In this authoritative and entertaining book, 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? The depth of Cohen's inquiry and the delight he takes in his subjects includes the practitioners of what he calls 'Bad History,' those thieves of history who twist reality to glorify themselves and conceal their or their country's behaviour. " - Book cover
List(s) this item appears in: New Acquisitions Summer 2022
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Loanable Book Library General Collection 907.2022 COH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000436629

"In this authoritative and entertaining book, 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? The depth of Cohen's inquiry and the delight he takes in his subjects includes the practitioners of what he calls 'Bad History,' those thieves of history who twist reality to glorify themselves and conceal their or their country's behaviour.
" - Book cover

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