Making history : the storytellers who shaped the past / Richard Cohen.
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022Description: 753 pages, illustrations : 24 cmISBN:- 9781474615778 (hbk.) :
- 23 907.2022
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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