Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (Richard Cohen - WH) Study of Civil War White and William J

White and William J

For three years

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by Catherine Clinton

Stretching across the millennia from prehistoric times to the 20th century and covering every continent except Antarctica

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (Richard Cohen - WH) Study of Civil War White and William Jby Richard Cohen (Author) A supremely entertaining (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the worlds historyfrom Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burnsand how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as objective history? In this witty, wise, and elegant (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen